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APPENDICES 



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A. The Oath of Hippocrates (about 400 B.C.) . . . 399 



B. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267 A.D.). An Anal- 

 ysis of the Sixth Part by J. H. Bridges 400 



C. Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies 



by Nicolas Copernicus (1543) 407 



D. William Harvey's Dedication of his Work on the Circu- 

 lation of the Blood (1628) 412 



E. Galileo before the Inquisition (1633) .... 414 



F. Preface to the Philosophic Naturalis Principia Mathe- 

 matica, by Isaac Newton (1686) 420 



G. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolcz 

 Vaccines, by Edward Jenner (1798) 422 



H. Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell (1830) . . .429 

 I. SOME INVENTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH 

 CENTURIES . . ... 438 



Power ; Its Sources and Significance Gunpowder, Nitro- 

 glycerine, Dynamite - - The Steam-Engine - The Spinning 

 Jenny, the Water Frame, and the Mule - - The Cotton Gin 



Steam Transportation - - The Achromatic Compound Micro- 

 scope Illuminating Gas Friction Matches - - The Sewing- 

 Machine Photography Anaesthesia ; The Ophthalmoscope 



India-Rubber Electrical Apparatus ; Telegraph, Telephone, 

 Electric Lighting, Electric Machinery - - Food Preserving by 

 Canning and Refrigeration The Internal-Combustion Engine 



Aniline The Manufacture of Steel : Bessemer Agricultu- 

 ral Apparatus and Inventions Applied Science; Engineering. 



A TABLE OF IMPORTANT DATES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND 



CIVILIZATION .......... 449 



A SHORT LIST OP BOOKS OF REFERENCE 459 



INDEX ............ 469 



