Renais- 

 sance. 



8 THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE 



educated unless he were acquainted with, 

 at any rate, one branch of physical sci- 

 ence. We have not, even yet, reached 

 that stage of enlightenment. 

 Further In the early decades of the seven- 

 after teenth century, the men of the Renais- 

 sance could show that they had already 

 put out to good interest the treasure be- 

 queathed to them by the Greeks. They 

 had produced the astronomical system 

 of Copernicus, with Kepler's great addi- 

 tions ; the astronomical discoveries and 

 the physical investigations of Galileo ; 

 the mechanics of Stevinus and the 'De 

 Magnete ' of Gilbert ; the anatomy of the 

 great French and Italian schools and the 

 physiology of Harvey. In Italy, which 

 had succeeded Greece in the hegemony 

 of the scientific world, the Accademia dei I 



Lyncei and sundry other such associa- 

 tions for the investigation of nature, the 

 models of all subsequent academies and 

 scientific societies, had been founded ; 





