Nineteenth century science: a selection of original texts

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العنوان: Nineteenth century science: a selection of original texts
19th century science, an anthology
19th century science, an anthology
المساهمون: Weber, A. S. (Alan S.), 1963-, Weber, Alan S.
بيانات النشر: Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, c2000.
سنة النشر: 2000
وصف مادي: xii, 500 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Science., Science -- History -- 19th century -- Sources., Scientists -- History -- 19th century., Sciences -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Sources., Scientifiques -- Histoire -- 19e siècle., Scientists -- Biography., Science -- history., Biography., History., Sources.
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: 1. Benjamin Banneker -- Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania Almanack, 1793 -- Banneker's New-Jersey Almanac, 1795 -- 2. Xavier Bichat -- Physiological researches on life and death -- 3. William Paley -- Natural theology -- 4. Erasmus Darwin -- The temple of nature -- 5. John Dalton -- A new system of chemical philosophy -- 6. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -- Zoological philosophy -- 7. Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- Theory of colours -- 8. Alexander von Humboldt -- The island of Cuba -- 9. Charles Babbage -- Reflections on the decline of science in England -- 10. Charles Lyell -- Principles of geology -- 11. Mary Fairfax Somerville -- On the connexion of the physical sciences -- 12. Theodor Schwann -- Microscopical researches -- 13. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky -- Geometrical researches on the theory of parallels -- 14. Robert Chambers -- Vestiges of the natural history of creation -- 15. George Combe -- The constitution of man -- 16. William Whewell -- The philosophy of the inductive sciences --
17. Herbert Spencer -- Social statics -- 18. Auguste Comte -- The positive philosophy -- 19. Charles Robert Darwin -- Origin of species -- Descent of man -- 20. Louis Pasteur -- "Infusorian animalcules living without free oxygen" -- "Experiments related to spontaneous generation" -- 21. Michael Faraday -- Chemical history of a candle -- 22. Friedrich Max Müller -- The science of language -- 23. Hermann von Helmholtz -- "On the conservation of force" -- 24. James Clerk Maxwell -- "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" -- 25. Claude Bernard -- Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale -- 26. Joseph Lister -- "On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery" -- 27. Sir Francis Galton -- Hereditary genius -- 28. John Tyndall -- The Belfast address -- 29. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin -- "Review of evidence regarding the physical condition of the earth" -- 30. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev -- "The periodic law of the chemical elements" -- 31. William James --
The principles of psychology -- 32. Thomas Henry Huxley -- Evolution and ethics -- 33. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- "On a new kind of rays" -- 34. Marie Sklodowska Curie -- "The discovery of radium" -- 35. George Washington Carver -- Feeding acorns -- 36. Alfred Russel Wallace -- "On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type" -- The wonderful century.
Original Identifier: ocm40982548
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-55111-165-0
1-55111-165-9
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ملاحظات: On cover: 19th century science, an anthology.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.008087121.6
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9781551111650
1551111659