SCIENCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY 



century tendencies of thought that only here and there 

 a philosopher, like Euler, called it in question, until well 

 on towards the close of the century. Current speech re- 

 ferred to the materiality of the "imponderables" un- 

 Iquestioningly. Students of meteorology a science that 

 was just dawning explained atmospheric phenomena 



BENJAMIN THOMPSON COUNT RUMFORD 



