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INDEX 



Pouchet, Felix, 166 

 Preformation, 150 

 Priestley, Joseph, 120, 151 

 Pringsheim, Nathaniel, 157 

 Printing, its importance in science, 



69 

 Printing early books, 76 

 Progress, 17 



in engineering, 43 



idea of, 6, 13 



in material aspects, 11 

 Progress and science, 21, 42 

 Progress and technology, 43 

 Project system of research control, 



220 

 Prophets, 47 

 Protein, 156 



Proteins, chemistry of, 130 

 Proton, 138 

 Protoplasm, 154 

 Proust, J. L., 121 

 Ptolemy, 72 



Ptolemy (astronomer), 90 

 Purine derivatives, 129 

 Purkinje, Johannes, 154 

 P)Tamid builders, 27, 30, 226 

 Pyramids, 43 

 Pythagoras, 4, 71, 80 



Quadrants, use of, 90 

 Quantum mechanics, 113 

 Quantum theory, 112, 113 



Rabies, virus of, 168 



Radicals, 123, 124 



Radioactive energy, 140 



Radioactivity, 111 



Radium, 136 



Ramsay, William, 116, 134, 182 



Raspail, F. B., 153, 155, 156 



Rayleigh, Lord, 63, 107, 119, 134 



Rays, anode, 198 



cathode, 105, 106, 109 



light, 99 



Rays, positive, 108 



Reaction, 90 



Reactions, autocatalytic, 227, 228 



chemical rate of, 130, 131 



termination of, 228 

 Redi, 149 

 Reform bill, 20 

 Reformation, 11 

 Refraction, double, 99, 101 



law of, 96 

 Regeneration, 149 

 Reichsanstalt, 176 

 Relativity, theory of, 113, 114 

 Religion, 47 



Christian, and authority, 75 

 Religion and magic, 48 

 Religion and natural phenomena, 



47 

 Remlinger, P., 168 

 Renaissance, 77 

 Renold, C. G., 219 

 Research, applied, differentiated 

 from fundamental, 206 

 Department of Scientific and In- 

 dustrial, 204, 211 

 direction of, 189 

 in the electrical industry, 175 

 General Electric, 175 

 in the German chemical indus- 

 try, 175 

 industrial, 175 



application of, 209 

 control of, 220 

 early days, 203 

 organization of, 186 

 origin of, 175 

 small industry, 211, 217 

 success in, 224 

 United Kingdom, 204 

 methods of, 173 

 organization of, 185 

 in the petroleum industry, 217 

 photographic, 179, 208 



