Moments of discovery
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New York : Basic Books, [1958].
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2 volumes (xvii, 1005 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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English
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Schwartz, G. I., & Bishop, P. W. (1958). Moments of discovery. New York, Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Schwartz, George I and Philip W. Bishop. 1958. Moments of Discovery. New York, Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Schwartz, George I and Philip W. Bishop, Moments of Discovery. New York, Basic Books, 1958.
MLA Citation (style guide)Schwartz, George I. and Philip W Bishop. Moments of Discovery. New York, Basic Books, 1958.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |a v. 1. The origins of science.|t A scientific approach to the study and treatment of disease is introduced /|r Hippocrates --|t Fundamental importance of experiment in science is proclaimed /|r Roger Bacon --|t Importance of the inductive method in science is detailed /|r Francis Bacon --|t Role of doubt and reason in interpreting the universe is emphasized, along with a discourse on method /|r Rene Descartes --|t Rules of reasoning in philosophy are presented as a simple, clear approach to science in general /|r Isaac Newton --|t Some general principles of experimentation in medicine are set forth /|r Claude Bernard --|t Search for the internal harmony of the universe is laid down as a creed for the scientist /|r Henri Poincare --|t Some aspects of the anatomy of science are analyzed /|r Gilbert N. Lewis --|t Some philosophic considerations concerning the methods of science are offered /|r Albert Einstein --|t A consideration of the dawn of science and a few of its early manifestations /|r George Sarton --|t Cumulative and progressive evolution of tools and machines for producing and using rotary motion are described /|r V. Gordon Childe --|t Habits of a number of marine animals are described /|r Aristotle --|t Some methods of plant propagation and growth are described /|r Theophrastus --|t Law of the lever is developed, and some applications of this principle are set forth /|r Archimedes --|t A method is described for measuring the circumference of the earth /|r Eratosthenes --|t Atomic theory of the nature of things, according to the ideas of Democritus and Epicurus, is set forth /|r Lucretius --|t Properties of gold are described /|r Pliny the Elder --|t Hypotheses of the geocentric universe are set down /|r Ptolemy --|t Dissection of a Barbary ape provides the material for a description of the muscles of the forearm /|r Galen --|t Aims and some of the methods of the alchemists are indicated /|r Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) --|t he formation of metals in the earth is discussed /|r Agricola (Georg Bauer) --|t Role of water in the growth of plants is shown by experiment /|r Johann Baptista van Helmont --|t Some fabulous animals are described along with some facts and misconceptions about real animals /|r The Book of Beasts --|t Burning is described as the result of the presence of a combustible principle, phlogiston /|r Georg Ernst Stahl --|t Motions of the planets around the sun in circular orbits are demonstrated /|r Copernicus --|t A new star is reported /|r Tycho Brahe --|t Construction of a telescope and observations of the moon, some plants, and some stars are described. The Ptolemaic and Copernican systems are compared /|r Galileo --|t It is announced that the planets move in elliptical orbits and that the universe is an orderly one /|r Johann Kepler --|t Universal laws of motion are established /|r Isaac Newton --|t Elliptical orbits of comets are described, and the return of a comet is predicted /|r Edmund Halley --|t Nebular hypothesis is suggested as an explanation of the origin of the solar system /|r Pierre Simon Laplace --|t Science of magnetism and electricity is initiated /|r William Gilbert --|t Laws of acceleration and of falling bodies are established /|r Galileo --|t Invention of the barometer is described and its operation explained /|r Evangelista Torricelli --|t Facts of air pressure are demonstrated by experiment /|r Blaise Pascal --|t Relationship between the pressure and the volume of a gas is developed experimentally /|r Robert Boyle --|t Wave theory of light is set forth /|r Christian Huygens --|t Law of elasticity is established /|r Robert Hooke --|t Composite nature of white light is demonstrated by the use of prisms /|r Isaac Newton --|t he development of maggots in rotting flesh is shown by experiment to result from the eggs of flies /|r Francesco Redi --|t Bacteria and protozoa are seen and accurately described for the first time /|r Antony van Leeuwenhoek --|t It is demonstrated by experiments that microbes do not originate spontaneously /|r Lazaro Spallanzani --|t Chemistry of fixed air (carbon dioxide) is studies experimentally /|r Joseph Black --|t Oxygen is prepared by heating mercuric oxide, and its ability to support combustion is described /|r Joseph Priestley --|t Oxygen is discovered and recognized as an element /|r Carl Wilhelm Scheele --|t Water is shown to be a compound and not an element /|r Henry Cavendish --|t Role of oxygen in combustion is established /|r Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |a v. 2. The development of modern science.|t Dissection of the human body provides foundation of modern medicine /|r Andreas Vesalius --|t Term cell is used to describe the microscopic structure of cork /|r Robert Hooke --|t Anatomy of an insect is described in a series of dissections and drawings /|r Jan Swammerdam --|t Presence of a nucleus is reported in the cells of a number of plants /|r Robert Brown --|t Cell theory is anticipated and an explanation of cell function is offered /|r Henri Dutrochet --|t Cell theory is announced /|r Theodor Schwann --|t Living nerve cells are successfully grown outside the living body /|r Ross Harrison --|t Circulation of the blood is demonstrated and proved /|r William Harvey --|t Description of the capillaries of the lungs completes the theory of blood circulation /|r Marcello Malpighi --|t Movement of liquids in plants is studied by rigorous quantitative procedures /|r Stephen Hales --|t Process of photosynthesis in green plants is described in a series of experiments /|r Jan Ingen-Housz --|t Function of the spinal nerves of a frog is demonstrated /|r Johannes Muller --|t Some animal body functions and the methods used in discovering them are described /|r Claude Bernard --|t Binomial system of naming plants and animals is established in its modern form /|r Linnaeus --|t Inheritance of characteristics acquired by use and disuse is utilized to explain the evolution of life /|r Jean Lamarck --|t Theory of natural selection is advanced as a basis of evolution /|r Charles Darwin --|t Fundamental laws of inheritance are established by experiments with garden peas /|r Gregor Mendel --|t Mutations are suggested as the means of spontaneous heredity changes /|r Hugo DeVries --|t Vaccination to establish immunity to smallpox is demonstrated by experiment /|r Edward Jenner --|t Methods for studying disease-producing bacteria are described and are used to prove that tuberculosis is caused by a specific bacterium /|r Robert Koch --|t Immunity to rabies is successfully produced /|r Louis Pasteur --|t Antiseptic principles are established for the practice of surgery /|r Joseph Lister --|t Role of a tick in transmitting Texas Fever in cattle is proved /|r Theobald Smith --|t Foundations of the atomic theory are established /|r John Dalton --|t Chlorine is recognized as an element /|r Humphry Davy --|t Combination of gases with each other is demonstrated /|r Joseph Gay-Lussac --|t Distinction is made between an atom and a molecule /|r Amedeo Avogadro --|t Relationship between the properties and atomic weights of the elements is established /|r Dmitri Mendeleev --|t Urea, an organic substance, is produced from the inorganic substance ammonium cyanate /|r Friedrich Wohler --|t Famous kite experiment is described /|r Benjamin Franklin --|t Voltaic pile and the voltaic battery are developed /|r Alessandro Volta --|t Electromagnetic induction is described /|r Michael Faraday --|t X rays are discovered /|r Wilhelm Roentgen --|t Experiments lead to the discovery of radioactivity /|r Henri Becquerel --|t Polonium and radium are discovered /|r Pierre Curie and Marie Curie --|t Existence of electromagnetic waves is experimentally confirmed /|r Heinrich Hertz --|t Electron and some of its properties are described /|r J. J. Thomson --|t Nature and causes of radioactivity are discussed /|r Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy --|t Some thoughts on phantom problems in science /|r Max Planck --|t Some additional light is thrown on the methods of science /|r James Jeans --|t Young scientists are offered some advice and some hopes /|r J. Robert Oppenheimer. |
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