Project Gutenberg 2025-10-18 Public domain in the USA. 1331 Knickerbocker, William S. (William Skinkle) 1892 1972 Knickerbocker, William Skinkle 28016211 Classics of modern science : $b (Copernicus to Pasteur) $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf, $c1927. The method of inductive science on the interpretation of nature, or the reign of man / Francis Bacon -- The new idea of the universe / Nicolaus Copernicus -- On the principles of astronomy / Johann Kepler -- The Copernican versus the Ptolemaic astronomies / Galileo Galilei -- The circulation of blood in animals / William Harvey -- The discovery of the law of the compressibility of gases / Robert Boyle -- The wave theory of light / Christian Huygens -- Observations on animalculæ / Anthony von Leeuwenhoeck -- The theory of gravitation / Sir Isaac Newton -- The identity of lightning and electricity / Benjamin Franklin -- The sex of plants / Linnaeus -- The discovery of carbonic acid gas / Joseph Black -- The discovery of oxygen / Joseph Priestley -- The combination of hydrogen and oxygen into water / Henry Cavendish -- The discovery of Uranus; On the name of the new planet; On nebulous stars / Sir William Herschel -- The constituents of air / Karl Wilhelm Scheele -- The nature of combustion / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier -- New galvanic instrument / Alessandro Volta -- The nebular hypothesis / Pierre Simon Laplace -- The theory of vaccination / Edward Jenner -- The nature of heat / Count Rumford -- The atomic theory / John Dalton -- The doctrine of tissues / Marie François Xavier Bichat -- The molecules in gases proportional to the volumes / Amadeo Avogrado -- On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity / Sir Humphrey Davy -- On fluid chlorine; Electricity from magnetism / Michael Faraday -- On the production of currents and sparks of electricity from magnetism / Joseph Henry -- Uniformity in the series of past changes in the animate and inanimate world / Sir Charles Lyell -- Natural selection / Charles Darwin -- Cell theory / Theodor Schwann -- The conservation of energy / Hermann von Helmholtz -- Inoculation for hydrophobia / Louis Pasteur -- The Maxwell and Herz theory of electricity and light / James Clerk Maxwell -- The continuity of the germ-plasm as the foundation of a theory of heredity / August Weismann -- The chemistry of the stars / Sir Norman Lockyer -- Theory of bacteria / Robert Koch. Tim Miller, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/classicsofmodern00knic/page/n5/mode/2up 20241209172805knickerboc 1927 US en Science Science -- History Q Text 994391 2025-10-18T10:00:10.433560 text/html 968567 2025-10-18T09:04:06 text/html 1070487 2025-10-18T10:00:33.035471 application/epub+zip 1068118 2025-10-18T10:00:19.138550 application/epub+zip 578647 2025-10-18T10:00:13.362552 application/epub+zip 1662248 2025-10-18T10:00:44.836861 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1599091 2025-10-18T10:00:31.824494 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 932887 2025-10-18T10:00:09.194580 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 912942 2025-10-18T09:04:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4039 2025-10-18T10:00:44.979873 application/rdf+xml 8457 2025-10-18T10:00:18.145528 image/jpeg 1407 2025-10-18T10:00:17.959473 image/jpeg 1746060 2025-10-18T10:00:10.534559 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog