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INDEX 



Roman science, 144 

 Rosweyde, H., 170 

 Rule of three, 138 

 Rushd, ibn, 153 



Saint Sebastian of Munich, 42 



Saint-Simonists, 92 



Savonarola, G., 69, 80 



Scheffer, Ary, 109 



Science, pure, 13; progressive nature 

 of, 24; international, or superna- 

 tional, 26; success of, due to selec- 

 tion of problems, 27; continuity 

 of, in space and time, 32; and 

 civilization, 34; and technology, 

 36; and religion, 37; and theology, 

 38; and art, 39 ff.; aims at objec- 

 tivity, 40; teaching of, 49; sig- 

 nificance of, from international 

 point of view, 55; most powerful 

 factor in human progress, 56; the 

 humanizing of, 57; the dawn of, 

 135; Chinese and Hindu, 136; 

 Greek, 139; transition from orien- 

 tal to Greek, 140; Egyptian, 142; 

 Roman, 144; Arabic, 150 ff; in re- 

 lation to moral issues, 173; defi- 

 nition of, 177; main lesson of, 185. 



Science, history of, see History of 

 Science 



Science, future of, 107, 115 



Scientific biographies, educational 

 value of, 50 



Scientific development, conditions of, 

 52 



Scientific knowledge, of oriental 

 origin, 136; part manual and in- 

 tuitive, 27 



Scientific method, 164; see also: Ex- 

 perimental method 



Segantini, G., 39 



Semitic languages, Qeneral History 

 of, 109 



Semitic philology, 151 



Servetus, M., 9 



Sexagesimal fractions, 12, 140 



Sforza, F., 68 



Sforza, L., 67 



Shakespeare, W., 24 



Sigerist, H. E., 20 



Sina, ibn, 150, 153, see also Avicenna 



Smith, Edwin, 138 



Social Statics, 117 



Societe des amis du peuple, 92 



Socrates, 62 



Sources, return to, 46 



Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse, 



111 

 Spherical trigonometry, 153 

 Spain, capture of, 146 

 Spencer and Comte, compared, 121 

 Spencer, G., 116 

 Spencer, H., 113, 116 ff. 

 Spencer, the Rev. T., 116 

 Spinoza, B., 62, 159 

 Stevin, S., 9-10, 11, 79 

 Strauss, D. F., 121 

 Streeter, Canon, 27 

 Sumerians, system of accounting, 136 

 Summulae hgicales, 157 

 Superstitions, 76 

 al-Suri, ibn, 153 

 Synthetic Philosophy, 118-119 

 Syrians, 147 



Tabriz, 21 



Talmudic studies, 158 



Tannery, P., 31, 52 



Tatian, 144 



Technical inventions, 37 



Technology, history of, 54 



Textbooks, 50 



Theology, and science, 38 



Theory, without practice, 73 



Three, rule of, 138 



Tides, 71 



Tocqueville, Count de, 180 



Translation, of Arabic treatises into 



Latin, 147; from Greek into 



Arabic, 147 

 Trigonometry, 151; Hindu, 147; 



spherical, 153 



