CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS 



VOLUME I 



THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE 



CHAPTER PAGB 



I. PREHISTORIC SCIENCE ....... 3 



II. EGYPTIAN SCIENCE . .- f'< . '/ - . >V ' 25 



III. SCIENCE OP BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA . , , . 56 



IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OP THE ALPHABET ',. .86 

 V. THE BEGINNINGS OP GREEK SCIENCE .. . . . 103 



VI. THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY . . 112 



VII. GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD . . 139 



VIII. POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS . . . . 178 



IX. GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC 



PERIOD . . -. . . . . . 189 



X. SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD . . ... 253 



XI. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE . 285 



APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 301 



VOLUME II 



THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE 



I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE . . . . . 3 



II. MEDIEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS . . 13 



III. MEDIEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST . . . . 31 



IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND 



GALILEO . . . . . . . . . 52 



V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS 93 



VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY . 124 



VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY . . . . .156 



VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CEN- 

 TURIES ......... l8l 



IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OP 



LEARNING , - ' > ' ' .- I 9 I 



X. THE SUCCESSORS OP GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE . 204 

 XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT . . .225 



XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION . . . 236 



XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON . 252 



XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON 



GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN . . f . , . 259 



XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS . . 297 



APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . 305 



VOLUME III 



MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES 



I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY . . 3 



II. THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY ... 19 



III. THE NEW SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY , . . 74 



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