CONTENTS

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How to Use the Popular Science Library. By Garrett P. Serviss[9]
History of Science[39]-198
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I.History of Science[39]
II.Primitive Man and Early Civilizations[46]
III.Pre-Babylonian Science[56]
IV.Egyptian Science[64]
V.Founding of Systematic Science in Greece[76]
VI.Golden Age of Greek Sciences[86]
VII.The Roman and Middle Ages[97]
VIII.Science in the Seventeenth Century[106]
IX.Prelude to Modern Science—The Eighteenth Century[117]
X.Physical Sciences in the Nineteenth Century[129]
XI.The Natural Sciences[139]
XII.Organic Evolution, Variation, and Heredity[149]
XIII.Chemical and Botanical Theories[159]
XIV.Geology, Metallurgy, and Meteorology[168]
XV.Medicine and Pharmacy[178]
XVI.Electricity and Radioactivities[188]
XVII.Science in the Twentieth Century[195]
General Index[199]-384