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ScienceWeek
From
Alchemy to Galaxies:
Readings in the History
of Modern Physical Science
Contents
Part 1 - On Science and Scientists:
1. Personalities in the History Of Science
2. The Myth of the Miracle of Genius
3. Dangers of Intellectual Spectacles
4. The 18th Century Women Scientists of Bologna
5. Biologists and Physicists and Nazi Science
Part 2 - Physical Sciences:
6. Revolutions in Thought in the History Of Physics
7. Foundations of Modern Chemistry
8. The Measurement Of Time
9. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) and Heliocentrism
10. Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) and the Law Of Refraction
11. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
12. On Errors in Chemical Theory
13. On Gases
14. Thomas Young (1773-1829) and the Physics Of Light
15. Joseph Loschmidt (1821-1895) and the Size of Molecules
16. Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) and the Theory Of Invariants
17. Mary Somerville (1780-1872) and Gravity
18. Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794-1863) and the Nature Of Crystals
19. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
20. Gratings, Spectroscopy, and Henry Rowland (1848-1901)
21. X-Rays and X-Ray Diffraction
22. William Thompson (1824-1907) and Established Authority
23. Earth Science
24. Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927)
25. Radioactivity
26. Wilhelm Ostwald (1852-1932)
27. Millikan's Oil Drops, Electron Charge, And Cooked Data
28. Acids and Bases
29. Max Planck (1858-1947)
30. 1905: Einstein's Annus Mirabilis
31. Quantum Physics
32. Particle Physics
33. Chemical Dynamics and Chain Reactions
34. Edward U. Condon (1902-1974) and Physics in Politics
35. On Goedel's Theorem
36. Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
37. Leo Szilard (1898-1964) and the Disparagement of Inventions
38. Eugene Wigner (1902-1995) and the Atomic Bomb
39. High-Temperature Superconductors
40. Crystal Engineering
41. Astronomy and Astrophysics
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