CONTENTS 



Introduction to the English Edition, 

 BY Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade 



Author's Preface 



Pythagoras of Samos 



Euclid 



Archimedes 



Hipparchus of Nicea 



Leonardo da Vinci . 



NicoLAus Copernicus 



Tycho Brahe . 



Simon Stevin . 



Galileo Galilei 



Johannes Kepler 



Evangelista Toricelli and Blaise Pascal 



Willebrord Snell and Rene Descartes 



Otto Guericke ..... 



Robert Boyle and Edme Mariotte . 



Olaus Roemer ..... 



Christian Huygens .... 



Isaac Newton 



Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Dionysius Papin 



James Bradley . 



Joseph Black and James Watt 



Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, and 

 Cavendish ..... 



Charles Augustin Coulomb 



Luigi Galvani and Allessandro Volta 



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Henry 



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