



Produced by Charles Keller





A HISTORY OF SCIENCE

BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, M.D., LL.D.

ASSISTED BY EDWARD H. WILLIAMS, M.D.

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOLUME II.



CONTENTS

   BOOK II

   CHAPTER I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE

   CHAPTER II. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS

   CHAPTER III. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST

   CHAPTER IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY--COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO

   CHAPTER V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS

   CHAPTER VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES--ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY

   CHAPTER VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY

   CHAPTER VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

   CHAPTER IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF
   LEARNING

   CHAPTER X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE

   CHAPTER XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT

   CHAPTER XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION

   CHAPTER XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON

   CHAPTER XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON
   GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN

   CHAPTER XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS

   APPENDIX




A HISTORY OF SCIENCE




BOOK II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE

The studies of the present book cover the progress of science from the
close of the Roman period in the fifth century A.D. to about the middle
of the eighteenth century. In tracing the course of events through so
long a period, a difficulty becomes prominent which everywhere besets
the historian in less degree--a difficulty due