Pioneers of Science

by Sir Oliver Lodge

INDEX

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INDEX

A
Abbott, T.K., on tides, [369]
Adams, John Couch, [193], [217], [302], [323], [324], [325], [327], [329], [330], [352], [385]
Airy, Sir George, [193], [244], [302], [323], [324], [327], [367]
Anaxagoras, [15]
Appian, [218]
Arabs, the, form a link between the old and new science, [9]
Archimedes, [7], [8], [84], [87], [144], [177]
Aristarchus, [34]
Aristotle, [66], [69], [88], [94], [99], [167].
He taught that the earth was a sphere, [16];
his theories did not allow of the earth's motion, [34];
he was regarded as inspired, [89]
B
Bacon, Francis, [142], [143], [144], [145].
His Novum Organum, [141]
Bacon, Roger, [96], [139], [140].
The herald of the dawn of science, [9]
Brahé, George, uncle of Tycho Brahé, [39]
Brahé, Steno, brother of Tycho Brahé, [39]
Brahé, Tycho, [37], [39], [40], [44], [45], [49], [51], [53], [54], [55], [58], [63], [64], [65], [66], [68], [71], [72], [74], [75], [77], [78], [86], [94], [117], [137], [155], [165], [166], [200], [244], [281], [288].
He tried to adopt the main features of the Copernican theory without admitting the motion of the earth, [37];
he was a poor theorist but a great observer, [38];
his medicine, [44];
his personal history, [39], seq.;
his observatory, Uraniburg, [47];
his greatest invention, [50], note;
his maniac Lep, [52];
his kindness to Kepler, [63]
Ball, Sir R., [391], [394];
his Story of the Heavens, [377]
Barrow, Dr., [165], [187]
Bessel, [288], [310], [311], [313], [315], [316], [318], [323]
Biela, [345], [346], [347]
Bode's Law, [60], [296], [298], [299], [326]
Boyle, [139], [188]
Bradley, Prof. James, [233], [246], [247], [249], [252], [253], [308], [319]
Bremiker, [328], [329]
Brewster, on Kepler, [78]
Brinkley, [308]
Bruno, Giordano, [108], [127]
C
Castelli, [112], [133]
Cayley, Prof., [385]
Challis, Prof., [328], [329]
Clairut, [193], [216], [217], [219], [234], [341]
Clark, Alvan and Sons, [316]
Columbus, [9], [144]
Copernicus, [7], [10], seq., [14], [26], [27], [29], [30], [31], [33], [34], [35], [37], [38], [62], [66], [68], [70], [78], [93], [95], [100], [108], [111], [121], [122], [137], [155], [166], [223], [234], [247], [307];
his De Revolutionibus Orbium Cœlestium, [11], [75], [138];
he proved that the earth went round the sun, [13];
the influence of his theory on the Church, [13], seq.;
his life-work summarised, [30];
his Life by Mr. E.J.C. Morton, [31]
Copernican tables, [40];
Copernican theory, [59], [60], [125], [144], [167]
Copernik, Nicolas; see Copernicus
Cornu, [238]
Croll, Dr., his Climate and Time, [264]
D
D'Alembert, [193], [234]
Darwin, Charles, [134], [138], [397]
Darwin, Prof. George, [367], [394]
Delambre, [253]
Descartes, [145], [146], [148], [151], [153], [156], [158], [164], [165], [167], [178], [181], [224], [227];
his Discourse on Method, [142];
his dream, [147];
his system of algebraic geometry, [149], seq.;
his doctrine of vortices, [151], seq.;
his Principia Mathematica, [154];
his Life by Mr. Mahaffy, [154]
E
Earth, the difficulties in the way of believing that it moved, [34], seq.
"Earth-rise in Moon-land," [258], note
Encke, [345], [346]
Epicyclic orbits explained, [23], seq.
Equinoxes, their precession discovered by Hipparchus, [27]
Eudoxus, [19]
Euler, [193], [234]
F
Faraday, [84]
Fizeau, [238], [239]
Flamsteed, [215], [246], [284], [308], [319]
Fraunhofer, [311]
Froude, Prof.; his Oceania, [387]
G
Galen, [87]
Galileo, Galilei, [63], [75], [84], [88], [90], [92], [93], [97], [98], [101], [104], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [112], [114], [116], [117], [118], [120], [121], [122], [123], [125], [127], [133], [134], [137], [144], [145], [153], [154], [157], [165], [166], [167], [168], [177], [188], [200], [224], [227], [256], [281], [288], [309], [361];
his youth, [85];
his discovery of the pendulum, [86];
his first observations about falling bodies, [88], seq.;
he invents a telescope, [95];
he adopts the Copernican theory, [94];
he conceives "earth-shine," [100];
he discovers Jupiter's moons, [103];
he studies Saturn, [114], seq.;
his Dialogues on the Ptolemaic and Copernican Systems, [124];
his abjuration, [130];
he becomes blind, [132];
he discovered the Laws of Motion, [167], seq.;
he guessed that sight was not instantaneous, [236], [237]
Galle, Dr., [245], [329]
Gauss, [299], [300]
Gilbert, Dr., [139], [140], [157], [188];
his De Magnete, [140], [144]
Greeks, their scientific methods, [7]
Groombridge's Catalogue, [315]
H
Hadley, [185]
Halley, [192], [193], [194], [195], [197], [215], [218], [219], [246], [258], [260], [261], [340], [341];
he discovered the Principia, [194]
Harvey, [144], [149]
Haughton, Dr., [321];
his manual on Astronomy, [21], note
Heliometer, described, [311]
Helmholtz, [378]
Helmont, Van, invented the word "gas," [141]
Henderson, [310], [314]
Herschel, Alexander, [275], [277], [278], [279]
Herschel, Caroline, [275], [276], [279], [286], [345];
her journal quoted, [277], seq.;
her work with William H. described, [284]
Herschel, Sir John, [283], [285], [327], [329]
Herschel, William, [185], [234], [235], [244], [249], [274], [275], [280], [281], [282], [284], [288], [289], [290], [293], [295], [305], [309], [310], [318], [319], [327];
he "sweeps" the heavens, [280];
his discovery of Uranus, [281], [287];
his artificial Saturn, [281], [282];
his methods of work with his sister, described, [284];
he founded the science of Astronomy, [287]
Hind, [300]
Hipparchus, [7], [18], [20], [27], [28], and note, [30], [40], [66], [223], [253];
an explanation of his discovery of the precession of the equinoxes, [27], seq.
Hippocrates, [87]
Homeric Cosmogony, [15], seq.
Hooke, [139], [188], [192], [193], [196], [197], [308]
Hôpital, Marquis de l', [228]
Horkey, Martin, [106]
Horrebow, [244]
Huxley, Prof., [149]
Huyghens, [86], [166], [185]
K
Kant, [267], [270]
Kelvin, Lord, see Thomson, Sir W.
Kepler, John, [59], [60], [63], [64], [65], [66], [70], [72], [73], [75], [77], [79], [84], [93], [94], [95], [104], [106], [107], [110], [122], [137], [145], [153], [158], [164], [165], [166], [167], [192], [200], [208], [209], [210], [211], [212], [214], [218], [224], [227], [253], [256], [259], [260], [262], [288], [295], [296], [332], [338], [361], [389];
he replaced epicycles by an ellipse, [27];
he was a pupil of Tycho Brahé, [54];
he was a speculator more than an observer, [58];
his personal life, [58], seq.;
his theories about the numbers and distances of the planets, [60], [62];
he was helped by Tycho, [63];
his main work, [65], seq.;
he gave up circular motion, [69];
his Mysterium Cosmographicon, [105];
his Laws, [71], [74], [173], [174], [176], [179], [180], [206], seq.
L
Lagrange, [193], [234], [255], [256], [257], [258], [263]
Lagrange and Laplace, [258], [266], [395];
they laid the foundations of the planetary theory, [259]
Laplace, [68], [193], [218], [234], [255], [261], [262], [267], [268], [269], [270], [272], [288], [301], [317], [384], [385], [390];
his nebular hypothesis, [267], [292];
his Mécanique Céleste, [323]
Lassell, Mr., [283], [284]
Leibnitz, [192], [197], [233]
Le Monnier, [319]
Leonardo, see Vinci, Leonardo da
Leverrier, [193], [327], [328], [329], [330], [352]
Lippershey, Hans, [95]
M
Maskelyne, [281]
Maxwell, Clerk, [302], [303]
Molyneux, [248], [249]
Morton, Mr. E.J. C, his Life of Copernicus, [31]
N
Newton, Prof. H.A., [347]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [7], [30], [79], [138], [139], [144], [145], [149], [153], [157], [158], [165], [166], [167], [174], [176], [184], [187], [188], [189], [191], [192], [194], [196], [198], [199], [201], [213], [216], [219], [220], [221], [224], [226], [227], [228], [233], [242], [253], [255], [256], [274], [288], [317], [340], [378];
his Principia, [191], [192], [193], [194], [195], [196], [197], [207], [214], [216], [218], [228], [233], [242], [253];
his early life, [161], seq.;
his first experiments, [163];
his work at Cambridge, [164];
his Laws, [168];
his application of the Laws of Gravity to Astronomy, [177], [178], [179], [185], [190];
his reticence, [178];
his discoveries in Optics, [181], seq.;
his work summarised, [186];
his Optics, [189];
anecdotes of him, [191];
his appearance in a Court of Justice, [195];
some of his manuscripts very recently discovered, [217];
his theories of the Equinoxes and tides, [223], seq., [225], [363], seq.
O
Olbers, [299], [300]
P
Peters, Prof., [300], [316]
Piazzi, [298], [299], [308], [313]
Picard, [190], [242], [244], [247]
Pioneers, genuine, [7]
Planets and days of the week, [18]
Poynting, [332]
Printing, [9]
Ptolemy, [18], [20], [27], [38], [153], [155], [166], [214];
his system of the Heavens simplified by Copernicus, [11], [30];
his system described, [19], seq.;
his system taught, [34];
his harmonies, [74]
Pythagoras, [19], [20], [34]
Q
Quadrant, an early, [42], [43]
R
Rheiter, [107]
Ricci, Ostillio, [86], [87]
Roberts, Isaac, [268]
Roemer, [239], [240], [242], [244], [249], [251], [308]
Rosse, Lord, his telescope, [186], [268]
Rudolphine tables, [65]
S
Scheiner, [107]
Sizzi, Francesca, an orthodox astronomer, [106]
Snell, Willebrod, and the law of refraction, [65]
Solar system, its fate, [265]
Stars, a list of, [307]
Struve, [308], [310], [311], [313]
Stuart, Prof., quoted, [52]
T
Tatius, [296]
Telescopes, early, [96]
Thales, [7], [140], [317]
Thomson, Sir William, [367], [372], [373], [378], [394]
Tide-gauge, described, [373], seq.
Tides, [354], seq.
Time, is not exactly uniform, [384]
Torricelli, [133], [168]
Tycho, see Brahé, Tycho
V
Vinci, Leonardo da, [9], [100], [144], [184]
Viviani, [133], [168]
Voltaire, [181]
W
Watson, Prof., [300]
Whewell, [227]
Wren, Sir Christopher, [188], [192], [193], [197]
Z
Zach, Von, [296], [299]
Zone of Asteroids, [300], seq.

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