The autobiography of science /
Основен автор: | Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952, (ed.) |
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Други автори: | Schifferes, Justus Julius, 1907- (joint ed.) |
Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday,
1960.
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Издание: | 2nd ed., rev. and enl. |
Серия: |
A Science Publications Council book
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Предмети: | |
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