CHAPTER XIV

PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN

(1) (p. 274). A letter from M. Dufay, F.R.S. and of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, etc., in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc., vol. XXXVIII., pp. 258-265.

(2) (p. 282). Dean von Kleist, in the Danzick Memoirs, Vol. I., p. 407. From Joseph Priestley's History of Electricity, London, 1775, pp. 83, 84.

(3) (p. 288). Benjamin Franklin, New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, London, 1760, pp. 107, 108.

(4) (p. 291). Franklin, op. cit., pp. 62, 63.

(5) (p. 295). Franklin, op. cit., pp. 107, 108.

(For notes and bibliography to vol. II. see vol. V.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOR THE FIVE VOLUMES

[ I. PREHISTORIC SCIENCE ] [ II. EGYPTIAN SCIENCE ] [ III. SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA ] [ IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALPHABET ] [ V. THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK SCIENCE ] [ VI. THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY ] [ VII. GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD ] [ VIII. POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS—PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AND THEOPHRASTUS ] [ IX. GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC PERIOD ] [ X. SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD ] [ XI. A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE ]

[ BOOK II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN SCIENCE ]

[ I. SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE ] [ II. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS ] [ III. MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST ] [ IV. THE NEW COSMOLOGY—COPERNICUS TO KEPLER AND GALILEO ] [ V. GALILEO AND THE NEW PHYSICS ] [ VI. TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES—ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY ] [ VII. FROM PARACELSUS TO HARVEY ] [ VIII. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES ] [ IX. PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTISTS AND NEW INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING ] [ X. THE SUCCESSORS OF GALILEO IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE ] [ XI. NEWTON AND THE COMPOSITION OF LIGHT ] [ XII. NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION ] [ XIII. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION IN THE AGE OF NEWTON ] [ XIV. PROGRESS IN ELECTRICITY FROM GILBERT AND VON GUERICKE TO FRANKLIN ] [ XV. NATURAL HISTORY TO THE TIME OF LINNAEUS ]

[ BOOK III. MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ]

[ I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY ] [ II. THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY ] [ III. THE NEW SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY ] [ IV. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GEOLOGY ] [ V. THE NEW SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY ] [ VI. MODERN THEORIES OF HEAT AND LIGHT ] [ VII. THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM ] [ VIII. THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY ] [ IX. THE ETHER AND PONDERABLE MATTER ]

[ BOOK IV. MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ]

[ I. THE PHLOGISTON THEORY IN CHEMISTRY ] [ II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY ] [ III. CHEMISTRY SINCE THE TIME OF DALTON ] [ IV. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ] [ V. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ] [ VI. THEORIES OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION ] [ VII. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MEDICINE ] [ VIII. NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDICINE ] [ IX. THE NEW SCIENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY ] [ X. THE NEW SCIENCE OF ORIENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY ]

[ BOOK V. ASPECTS OF RECENT SCIENCE ]

[ I. THE BRITISH MUSEUM ] [ II. THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON FOR IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE ] [ III. THE ROYAL INSTITUTION AND THE LOW-TEMPERATURE RESEARCHES ] [ IV. SOME PHYSICAL LABORATORIES AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS ] [ V. THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT NAPLES ] [ VI. ERNST HAECKEL AND THE NEW ZOOLOGY ] [ VII. SOME MEDICAL LABORATORIES AND MEDICAL PROBLEMS ] [ VII. SOME UNSOLVED SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS ] [ IX. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT ]