Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Address of the President Before the British Association 561 The Bubonic Plague 576 Gasoline Automobiles 593 Some Scientific Principles of Warfare 605 Modern Mongols 618 Religious Beliefs of the Central Eskimo 624 Mental Energy 632 Chapters on the Stars 638 Discussion and Corre...
Address of the President Before the British Association 561 The Bubonic Plague 576 Gasoline Automobiles 593 Some Scientific Principles of Warfare 605 Modern Mongols 618 Religiou...
2. Part 2Although von Mohl, the botanist, seems to have been the first to recognize (1835) in plants a multiplication of cells by division, it was not until attention was given to the st...
3. Part 3The existence of famine in India, together with the filthy, overcrowded condition of the population, enabled the plague to gain a firm foothold in a relatively short time. Indee...
4. Part 4The terrible epidemic which ravaged Northern Italy in 1629-1631 deserves more than a passing notice. During those years more than a million died of the disease. Scarcely a town...
5. Part 5The electric spark is a very effective igniter for the explosive mixture, and, by properly setting cam _n_ the explosion can be made to take place just at the position of the pi...
6. Part 6As soon as the camp is established the guards are posted. If great precautions were needed during the day, much more are they by night. If fifty were sufficient on the march we...
7. Part 7And it would be a great mistake to ascribe these victories to a mere triumph of brute strength. That same Solyman, with all his fanaticism, was a patron of every secular science...
8. Part 8I presume this importance of the confession of a transgression with a view to warning others to keep at a distance from the transgressor has gradually led to the idea that a tra...
9. Part 9The advocates of bounties and of special legislation also ignore the fact that in this country, where mental energy is more nearly free in its action than in any other, manufact...
10. Part 10A careful examination of these variations shows us a very remarkable feature. On a preliminary study, the period will seem to be six and one-half days. But, comparing the altern...
11. Part 11Considerations drawn from photometry were also lost sight of, because that art was still undeveloped. Kepler saw that the sun might well be of the nature of a star; in fact, tha...
12. Part 12A recent work by Prof. Th. Flournoy, entitled ‘Des Indes à la Planète Mars,’[G] contains an account of a remarkable case of mental automatism, or sub-conscious personality. The...
13. Part 13Henry Sidgwick, late Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge, died on August 28, at the age of sixty-two years. There are usually not many events to record in th...