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Pioneers of Science

by Oliver Lodge

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2Part I — From Dusk to Daylight
  3. 3Lecture I — Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth
  4. 4Lecture II — Tycho Brahé and the Earliest Observatory
  5. 5Lecture III — Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
  6. 6Lecture IV — Galileo and the Invention of the Telescope
  7. 7Lecture V — Galileo and the Inquisition
  8. 8Lecture VI — Descartes and His Theory of Vortices
  9. 9Lecture VII — Sir Isaac Newton
  10. 10Lecture VIII — Newton and the Law of Gravitation
  11. 11Lecture IX — Newton’s “Principia”
  12. 12Part II — A Couple of Centuries’ Progress
  13. 13Lecture X — Roemer and Bradley and the Velocity of Light
  14. 14Lecture XI — Lagrange and Laplace — The Stability of the Solar Syst…
  15. 15Lecture XII — Herschel and the Motion of the Fixed Stars
  16. 16Lecture XIII — The Discovery of the Asteroids
  17. 17Lecture XIV — Bessel — The Distances of the Stars, and the Discover…
  18. 18Lecture XV — The Discovery of Neptune
  19. 19Lecture XVI — Comets and Meteors
  20. 20Lecture XVII — The Tides
  21. 21Lecture XVIII — The Tides, and Planetary Evolution

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