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The autobiography of science /

Основен автор: Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952, (ed.)
Други автори: Schifferes, Justus Julius, 1907- (joint ed.)
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1960.
Издание: 2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Серия: A Science Publications Council book
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Подобни документи: Online version:: Autobiography of science.
Съдържание:
  • Science is Born: In Antiquity
  • In the Beginning, God...
  • The Book of Genesis, Chapter I
  • The Hieroglyphic Record / Egyptian Papyri
  • The Father of Medicine / Hippocrates
  • The Founder of Biology / Aristotle
  • The Idea of Big Numbers / Archimedes
  • Of the Nature of Things / Lucretius
  • The Origin of Money: Economics Repeats Itself / Pliny
  • Concerning Architecture / Vitruvius
  • The Classical Authority in Medicine / Galen
  • Science Sleeps: In the Middle Ages
  • The Great Work of Medieval Science / Roger Bacon
  • The Black Death Disrupts Life and Learning / Guy de Chauliac
  • Doctors Merryman, Diet, and Quiet / The Regimen of Salerno
  • Science Reawakens: In the Renaissance
  • Aviation Flutters in the Leaves of an Artists Notebooks / Leonardo DaVinci
  • Metallurgy in a Sculptors Autobiography / Benvenuto Cellini
  • From Alchemy toward Chemistry / Paracelsus
  • On Metals / Agricola
  • The Revolution in Astronomy / Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Stargazer and Father of Mechanics / Galileo Galilei
  • The Father of Epidemiology / Girolamo Fracastoro
  • Science Belongs to Everyone / Conrad Gesner
  • I Dressed Him, God Healed Him / Ambroise Pare
  • The Cornerstone of Modern Medicine / Andreas Vesalius
  • The Key to Modern Physiology / William Harvey
  • The First Words About Electricity / William Gilbert
  • Science Grows Up: In the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
  • Nature is Commanded Only by Being Obeyed / Francis Bacon
  • Rules for Straight Thinking / Rene Descartes
  • A First Step in Meteorology / Blaise Pascal
  • The Speed and Character of Light / Christian Huygens
  • Bacteriology Begins with the First of the Microbe Hunters / Anton van Leeuwenhoek
  • The Primer of Vital Statistics / William Petty and John Graunt
  • Another Natural Law Discovered / Robert Hooke
  • The Laws of Gravitation, and Optics / Isaac Newton
  • The Scientific Foundation of the Life Insurance Business / Edmund Halley
  • The First Mercury Thermometer / Daniel Fahrenheit
  • The Beginning of Modern Dentistry / Pierre Fauchard
  • Living Things Get Their Scientific Names / Carolus Linnaeus
  • Science Comes of Age: During the French, American, and Industrial Revolutions
  • Chemistry: Quantitative Analysis Begins / Joseph Black
  • The Discovery of Oxygen / Joseph Priestley
  • Father of Modern Chemistry / Antoine Lavoisier
  • The Atomic Theory / John Dalton
  • The First Great Name in American Science / Benjamin Franklin
  • Cannon and Casserole: Physics and Social Sciences / Benjamin Thompson
  • Foreword to Evolution / Jean Baptiste Lamarck
  • Father of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy / Georges Cuvier
  • The Natural History of Selborne / Gilbert White
  • The Malthusian Theory Concerning Misery and Vice / Thomas Malthus
  • Letter from a Much-Traveled Lady / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Vaccination: The Beginning of Preventive Medicine / Edward Jenner
  • Science Weds Progress: In the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Nineteenth-Century Chemists / Liebig, Wohler, Davy, Vant Hoff, Arrhenius, Kekule, Mendelyeev, Perkin, Baeyer, and Nobel
  • The Mutual Relation of Electricity, Magnetism, and Motion / Michael Faraday
  • More Electricity of the Same Kind / Joseph Henry
  • Conservation of Energy / James Prescott Joule
  • A New Method of Diagnosis / Rene Laennec
  • A Classic of Epidemiology: On Cholera / John Snow
  • How We Digest Our Food: The Scientific Account / William Beaumont
  • The Great Argument Against Needless Deaths in Childbirth / Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Anesthesia! The Conquest of Pain / Crawford Long / William Morton / Washington Ayer
  • Biology Generates a New Science: Cytology / Theodor Schwann
  • Scientific Explorer of South America / Alexander von Humboldt
  • Principles of Geology / Charles Lyell
  • Science Asserts Itself: In the Age of Evolution
  • Keystone of the Arch of Evolution / Charles Darwin
  • The Paper Which Spurred Darwins Origin of the Species / Alfred Russell Wallace
  • Darwins Bulldog / Thomas Henry Huxley
  • The Father of Eugenics / Francis Galton
  • The Beginning of Experimental Psychology / Hermann von Helmholtz
  • From Physiology to Psychology / Willam James
  • The Germ Theory of Disease / Louis Pasteur
  • The Founder of Antiseptic Surgery / Joseph Lister
  • The Lady with the Lamp Makes Nursing Respectable / Florence Nightingale
  • The Principles of Sanitation / William Thompson Sedgwick
  • Waves in the Ether Again: Forerunner of Radio / James Clerk Maxwell
  • The First Radio Reception / Heinrich Hertz
  • Thermodynamics: The Flow of Heat / J. Willard Gibbs
  • More Thermodynamics / William Thomson
  • Science Sires the Twentieth Century
  • Aerodynamics: The Scientific Key to Aviation / Samuel P. Langley
  • X Rays Discovered: Radiology Begins and Crystallography Is Invigorated / William Conrad Roentgen
  • Photography Contributes to Science / Henri Becquerel
  • Radioactivity: Inside the Atom / Marie Sklodowska Curie
  • Atomic Physics: The Interpretation of the Atom / Frederick Soddy
  • Electronics is Born / J.J. Thomson
  • The Modern Concept of Matter / Ernest Rutherford
  • The Philosophic Foundations of Modern Science / Henri Poincare
  • The Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein
  • Quantum: Bullets of Energy / Max Planck
  • Electrons Move in Stationary Orbits / Niels Bohr
  • Matter and Light: The New Physics / Louis de Broglie
  • Science and the Human Temperament / Erwin Schroedinger
  • The Higher Physics Are Indeterminate: One Cant Say For Sure / Werner Heisenberg
  • Atom-Smashing Brings True the Alchemists Dream / Ernest O. Lawrence
  • Anthropology Seeks the Origin of Man / Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • The Life of the Bee: Sociology of the Insect World / Maurice Maeterlinck
  • A Key to the Riddle of Heredity / Gregor Mendel
  • The New Science of Genetics / Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • Psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud
  • The Philosophy of a Beloved Physician / William Osler
  • The Wisdom of the Body: Studies in Physiology / Walter B. Cannon
  • Science Takes Command of the Globe: In World War II and Afterward
  • The Atomic Age - No Cause for Alarm / Enrico Fermi
  • A-Bomb / Harry S Truman
  • E=mc2 - Einsteins Equation Proved /Henry D. Smyth
  • A Secret Experiment / Enrico Fermi, Arthur H. Compton and others
  • the First Atomic Explosion / J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes / Amasa S. Bishop
  • The Electronic Age / U.S. Office of War Information
  • Radio Astronomy - The Telescope Grows Ears / Otto Struve
  • The Jet Age / Jerome C. Hunsaker
  • The Space Age: Rocketry Reborn / Walter Dornberger
  • Sputnik / Tass
  • Space-Age Primer / Presidents Science Advisory Committee: James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman: Hans A. Bethe, I.I. Rabi, and others
  • Astronautics; And So to Mars / Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley
  • Oceanography: To the Bottom of the Sea around Us / Rachel Carson
  • The Stuff of Life - Nucleic Acids / George W. Beadle
  • The Population Explosion / Harrison Brown, Sir Charles Galton Darwin
  • The Age of Wonder Drugs / Rustom Jal Vakil
  • Psychopharmacology: New Help for Troubled Minds / Henri Laborit, Pierre Deniker, Heinz E. Lehman, and LeRoy E. Burney
  • The Language of Science / P.W. Bridgman
  • Linguistics: Science is a Slave to Grammar / Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • A Sense of Nature / Donald Culross Peattie