| Description |
ix, 637 pages : illustrations (including maps) diagrams ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
[Masterworks series]
|
| Note |
"First edition." |
| Contents |
The elements, by Euclid.--On floating bodies, and other propositions, by Archimedes.--On the revolution of the heavenly spheres, by Nikolaus Copernicus.--Dialogues concerning two new sciences, by Galileo.--Principia by Isaac Newton.--The atomic theory, by John Dalton.--Principles of geology, by Charles Lyell.--The origin of species, by Charles Darwin.--Experimental researches of electricity, by Michael Faraday.--Experiments in plant-hybridization, by G.J. Mendel.--The periodic law, by D.I. Mendeleyev.--Radioactivity, by Marie Curle.--Relativity: the special and general theory, by Albert Einstein. |
| Subject |
Science.
|
|
Science.
|
|
Science -- history.
|
|
