An Introduction to the History of Science
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00 Preface
5:45 -
01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia
24:27 -
02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle
26:58 -
03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius
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04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs
24:28 -
05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon
27:49 -
06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes
23:46 -
07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle
23:03 -
08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society
26:40 -
09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin
26:13 -
10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith
23:00 -
11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel
22:23 -
12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule
26:12 -
13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy
25:29 -
14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune
22:41 -
15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle
27:49 -
16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister
31:51 -
17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane
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18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances
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19 The Scientific Imagination
20:45 -
20 Science and Democratic Culture
22:32
An Introduction to the History of Science (1917) is a public domain work.
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Everyday ways of measuring time give Walter Libby a starting point for explaining how scientific knowledge develops. Published in 1917, his introductory history links the seven-day week to Babylonia and places early practical knowledge alongside the later contributions of Greek thought. Its chapters organize the subject around method, measurement, cooperation and invention, with figures such as Aristotle and Galileo appearing within that account.
The preface connects science with ordinary occupations, teaching and the sharing of ideas across countries. In the discussion of Kant, readers encounter an explanation of how scattered matter might gather into the sun and planets through attraction and circular motion. The contents also point to Neptune, the voyage of the Beagle and radioactive substances. For readers interested in scientific ideas, the book offers a view of how an early twentieth-century educator related discoveries to the wider culture that helped produce them.
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- Walter Libby
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