CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



SCIENCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



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COPERNICUS, 82 Tycho Brahe, 84 John Kepler, 90 Baptista Porta, 92 

 Dr. William Gilbert, 94 Jerome Fracastor, 96 Stevinus of Bruges, 96 Para- 

 celsus, 97 Agricola, 98 Bernard Palissy, 99 Alchemy, 102. 



CHAPTER V. 



GALILEO. ' 



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YOUTH, 104 Attack on Aristotle, 105 Adopts Copernican system, 107 The 

 Telescope, 107 Jupiter, 109 Saturn, ill Visits Rome, 1 12 Theology and 

 Science, 113 Third visit to Rome, 115 His prpsecution, 116 Sentence, 119 

 Abjuration, 123 His old age and death, 124. 



CHAPTER -VI. 



FRANCIS BACON. 



Pae 126 



BIRTH and Education, 126 Influence of his Writings, 127 The " Novum 

 Organum," 130 Induction, 131 The Idols, 131 "Forms," 134 The " Form 

 of Heat," 135 The ^Tables, 135 Prerogative Instances, 137 Solitary Instances, 

 137 Glaring and obscure Instances, 138 Crucial Instances, 138 Other Instances, 

 140 Bacon's views, 140. 



CHAPTER VII, 



MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



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LUCAS de Borgo, 144 Cardan, Tartnglia, Bombelli, Robert Recorde, Vieta, 

 144 Harriot, John Napier, 145 Logarithms, 146 Ren6 Descartes, 148 Wille- 

 brord Snell, 155 Glass Lenses, 156 Descartes on Light, 160 The Mechanical 

 Powers, 161 The Pendulum, 162 Mechanics, 162 Sound, 164 Galileo and 

 the Vacuum, 165 Torricelli, 168 Blaise Pascal, 169 0~tto von Guericke, 172 

 Santorio, Drebbel, 176 Scientific Societies, 177. 



