A History of Science — Volume 5

STUDENTS of the classics will recall that the old Roman historians were accustomed to detail the events of the remote past in what they were pleased to call annals, and to elabo...

On the Induction of Electric Currents, in Phil. Trans. of Royal Society for 1832, pp. 126-128. Explication of Arago's Magnetic Phenomena, by Michael Faraday, F.R.S., Phil. Trans...

The ever-shifting ground of scientific progress, p. 203--Solar and telluric problems, p. 205--Mayer's explanation of the continued heat of the sun, p. 206--Helmholtz's suggestio...

The aquarium, p. 113--The arrangement of the tanks and exhibits, p. 114--The submarine effect of this arrangement, p. 115--Appearance of the submarine dwellers in their natural...

The founding of the Royal Institution, p. 29--Count Rumford, p. 30--His plans for founding the Royal Institution, p. 32--Change in the spirit of the enterprise after Rumford's d...

Sir Norman Lockyer and Spectroscopic Studies of the Sun and Stars, p. 73--Observations made at South Kensington by Sir Norman and his staff, p. 74--His theories as to the influe...

The Boulevard Pasteur, p. 179--The Pasteur Institute, p. 180--The tomb of Pasteur within the walls, p. 181--Aims and objects of the Pasteur Institute, p. 182--Antirabic treatmen...

The "dream city" of Jena, p. 145--The old market-place, p. 147--The old lecture-halls of the university, p. 148--Ernst Haeckel, p. 151--His discoveries of numerous species of ra...

The founding of the British Museum, p. 4--Purchase of Sir Hans Sloane's collection of curios by the English government, p. 4--Collection of curios and library located in Montagu...

The Royal Society, p. 14--Weekly meetings of the society, p. 15--The tea before the opening of the lecture, p. 15--Announcement of the beginning of the lecture by bringing in th...