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generation, admired and to some extent imitated his predecessor 

 in this direction. 



PROGRESS OF NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN THE 

 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. A mere glance at the Tabular View 

 of Chronology in the Appendix will suffice to show the immense 

 superiority of the seventeenth to any preceding century in the 

 number as well as the productivity of the workers devoted to the 

 mathematical, and likewise to the natural and physical, sciences. 

 The achievements of this century in natural philosophy are 

 especially notable both for their fundamental character and their 

 wide range. A century which began with a Galileo and ended with 

 a Huygens and a Newton ; which witnessed the introduction of 

 the telescope, the barometer, the thermometer, the air-pump, the 

 manometer, and the microscope, as well as the organization of 

 the greatest and most useful scientific societies the world has 

 hitherto known, must be forever famous. And when to the names 

 and works of Galileo and Huygens and Newton we add those of 

 Kepler, Harvey, Torricelli, Halley, Descartes, Boyle, Hales, 

 Boerhaave, Leeuwenhoek, and Malpighi, we have a brilliant com- 

 pany indeed. 



REFERENCES FOR READING 



FRANCIS BACON. Essay in Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century, by 



Sidney Lee. 



ROBERT BOYLE. Sceptical Chymist. (Everyman's Library.) 

 BREWSTER'S Life of Newton, and Lives of Eminent Persons. 

 R. DESCARTES. Life, by Haldane. 

 R. DESCARTES, Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly 



and of seeking scientific truth. Cf. HUXLEY. Methods and Results, 1896. 

 G. E. HALE. National Academies and the Progress of Research. 

 WILLIAM HARVEY On The Movement of the Heart and the Blood. (Everyman's 



Library.) 



WILLIAM HARVEY. By D'Arcy Power. (Masters of Medicine Series.) 

 HERSCHEL'S Familiar Lectures. 

 THOMAS SYDENHAM. By J. F. Payne. (Masters of Medicine Series.) 



