APPENDIX

REFERENCE-LIST
CHAPTER I
THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY (1) (p. 10). An Account of Several
Extraordinary Meteors or Lights in the Sky, by Dr. Edmund Halley. Phil.
Trans. of Royal Society of London, vol. XXIX, pp. 159-162. Read before
the Royal Society in the autumn of 1714. (2) (p. 13). Phil. Trans. of
Royal Society of London for 1748, vol. XLV., pp. 8, 9. From A Letter to
the Right Honorable George, Earl of Macclesfield, concerning an Apparent
Motion observed in some of the Fixed Stars, by James Bradley, D.D.,
Astronomer Royal and F.R.S.
CHAPTER II
THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY
(1) (p. 25). William Herschel, Phil. Trans. for 1783, vol. LXXIII. (2)
(p. 30). Kant's Cosmogony, ed. and trans. by W. Hartie, D.D., Glasgow,
900, pp. 74-81. (3) (p. 39). Exposition du systeme du monde (included in
oeuvres Completes), by M. le Marquis de Laplace, vol. VI., p. 498. (4)
(p. 48). From The Scientific Papers of J. Clerk-Maxwell, edited by W.
D. Nevin, M.A. (2 vols.), vol. I., pp. 372-374. This is a reprint of
Clerk-Maxwell's prize paper of 1859.
CHAPTER III
THE NEW SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY
(1) (p. 81). Baron de Cuvier, Theory of the Earth, New York, 1818, p.
98. (2) (p. 88). Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (4 vols.),
London, 1834. (p. 92). Ibid., vol. III., pp. 596-598. (4) (p. 100). Hugh
Falconer, in Paleontological Memoirs, vol. II., p. 596. (5) (p. 101).
Ibid., p. 598. (6) (p. 102). Ibid., p. 599. (7) (p. 111). Fossil Horses
in America (reprinted from American Naturalist, vol. VIII., May, 1874),
by O. C. Marsh, pp. 288, 289.
CHAPTER IV
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GEOLOGY
(1) (p. 123). James Hutton, from Transactions of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 1788, vol. I., p. 214. A paper on the "Theory of the Earth,"
read before the Society in 1781. (2) (p. 128). Ibid., p. 216. (3)
(p. 139). Consideration on Volcanoes, by G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., pp.
228-234. (4) (p. 153). L. Agassiz, Etudes sur les glaciers, Neufchatel,
1840, p. 240.
CHAPTER V
THE NEW SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY
(1) (p. 182). Theory of Rain, by James Hutton, in Transactions of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1788, vol. 1, pp. 53-56. (2) (p. 191). Essay
on Dew, by W. C. Wells, M.D., F.R.S., London, 1818, pp. 124 f.
CHAPTER VI
MODERN THEORIES OF HEAT AND LIGHT
(1) (p. 215). Essays Political, Economical, and Philosophical, by
Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford (2 vols.), Vol. II., pp. 470-493,
London; T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1797. (2) (p. 220). Thomas Young,
Phil. Trans., 1802, p. 35. (3) (p. 223). Ibid., p. 36.
CHAPTER VII
THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
(1) (p. 235). Davy's paper before Royal Institution, 1810. (2) (p. 238).
Hans Christian Oersted, Experiments with the Effects of the Electric
Current on the Magnetic Needle, 1815. (3) (p. 243). On the Induction
of Electric Currents, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans. of Royal
Society of London for 1832, pp. 126-128. (4) (p. 245). Explication of
Arago's Magnetic Phenomena, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans.
Royal Society of London for 1832, pp. 146-149.
CHAPTER VIII
THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
(1) (p. 267). The Forces of Inorganic Nature, a paper by Dr. Julius
Robert Mayer, Liebig's Annalen, 1842. (2) (p. 272). On the Calorific
Effects of Magneto-Electricity and the Mechanical Value of Heat, by J.
P. Joule, in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, vol. XII., p. 33.
CHAPTER IX
THE ETHER AND PONDERABLE MATTER
(1) (p. 297). James Clerk-Maxwell, Philosophical Magazine for January
and July, 1860.

END OF VOL. III

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOR THE FIVE VOLUMES

[ BOOK I ]

[ 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 ]