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The Life of Galileo Galilei
by John Elliot Drinkwater BethuneThe Life of Galileo Galilei is the biography of the great scientist written by the English writer John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, who has been remembered for promoting women’s education and pinnacled his efforts by founding Bethune College in India. This biographic work not only portrays the life of the great scientist, but the conflict between ..
Michael Faraday
by Walter JerroldMichael Faraday is the biography of the man of science who lived a simple and unadventurous life yet instrumental in contributing to the advancement of natural science for more than five decades of the century he lived in. This biography is written by Walter Copeland Jerrold, a journalist and newspaper editor, whose other biographical work includes..
The Martyrs of Science
by David BrewsterAlthough in these days, when Science constitutes the power and wealth of nations, and encircles the domestic hearth with its most substantial comforts, there is no risk of its votaries being either persecuted or neglected, yet the countenance of those to whom[vi] Providence has given rank and station will ever be one of the most powerful incitement..
Pioneers of Science
by Oliver LodgePreface by Author: This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for me in the year 1887 by three of my colleagues (A.C.B., J.M., G.H.R.), one of whom gave the course its name. The lectures having been found interesting, it was natural to write them out in full and publish.If I may claim for th..
Sir William Herschel - His Life and Works
by Edward S. HoldenIn the following account of the life and works of Sir William Herschel, I have been obliged to depend strictly upon data already in print—the Memoir of his sister, his own scientific writings and the memoirs and diaries of his contemporaries. The review of his published works will, I trust, be of use. It is based upon a careful study of all his pap..
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Bryce WaltonThe history of the life and labours of Galileo is pregnant with a peculiar interest to the general reader, as well as to the philosopher. His brilliant discoveries, the man of science regards as his peculiar property; the means by which they were made, and the developement of his intellectual character, belong to the logician and to the philosopher..
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)
by James MontgomeryGarcilaso did not, however, long enjoy the leisure that he so well employed. Charles V., whose great ambition was to crush the power of France, and to possess himself of a portion of that kingdom, was resolved to take advantage of the disastrous issue of Francis I.'s attempt upon the duchy of Milan, and rashly determined to invade a country whose a..
James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics
by Richard GlazebrookThe task of giving some account of Maxwell’s work—of describing the share that he has taken in the advance of Physical Science during the latter half of this nineteenth century—has proved no light labour. The problems which he attacked are of such magnitude and complexity, that the attempt to explain them and their importance, satisfactorily, witho..