svi CONTENTS. 



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Speaks of Ships going without Sails Flavio Gioja invents the 

 Mariner's Compass Greeks knew of the Power of the Load- 

 stone to attract Iron Use of the Compass in discovering new 

 lands Invention of Printing Columbus discovers America 

 Vasco de Gama sees the Stars of the Southern Hemisphere 

 Magellan's ship sails round the World Inventions of Leonardo 

 da Vinci 51 



PART III. 

 RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN SCIENCE. 



CHAPTER IX. 



SCIENCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



Rise of Modern Science Dogmatism of the Middle Ages 

 Reasons for studying discoveries in the order of their dates 

 Copernican theory of the Universe Copernicus goes back to 

 the System of Aristarchus Is afraid to publish his Work till 

 quite the end of his Life Work of Vesalius on Anatomy He 

 shows that Galen made many mistakes in describing Man's 

 Structure His Banishment and Death The value of his 

 Work to Science Fallopius and Eustachius Anatomists 

 Gesner's Works on Animals and Plants He forms a Zoolo- 

 gical Cabinet and makes a Botanical Garden His Natural 

 History of Animals His classification of Plants according to 

 their Seeds His work on Mineralogy Ctesalpinus makes the 

 l-'irst System of Plants on Gesner's plan Explains Dioecious 

 Plants Chemistry of Paracelsus and Van Helmont . .61 



CHAPTER X. 



SCIENCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED) 



Baptiste Porta discovers the Camera Obscura Shows that our 

 Eye is like a Camera Obscura Makes a kind of Magic Lan- 

 tern by Sunlight Kircher afterwards makes a Magic Lantern 

 by Lamplight Dr. Gilbert's discoveries in Electricity Tycho 



