CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS 



VOLUME I 



THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. PREHISTORIC SCIENCE 3 



II. EGYPTIAN SCIENCE ....... 2$ 



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



IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF 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 OP 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 OF 



LEARNING ........ 191 



X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE . 204 



XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT . . . 22$ 



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



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



XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON 



GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN . . . . . -259 



XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINN^US . . 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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