Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
PART 1: MECHANICS
Galileo: Life. Acceleration and Laws of Falling Bodies. The Pendulum. Motion of Projectiles.
Stevinus: Life. The Inclined Plane.
Huygens: Life. Theorems on Centrifugal Force.
Newton: Life. Definitions. Axioms or Laws of Motion.
Varignon: Life. Varignon's Theorem. Jean Bernoulli's Principle of Virtual Velocities.
Descartes: Life. Quantity of Motion.
Leibnitz: Life. Quantity of Motion.
D'Alembert: Life. Quantity of Motion.
Young: Life. Energy.
Lagrange: Life. Principle of Virtual Velocities.
Poinsot: Life. Forces and Couples.
PART 2: PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Galileo: Rise of Water in a Pump.
Torricelli: Life. The Barometer.
Pascal: Life. Experiments with the Barometer. Fluid Pressure.
Von Guericke: Life. The Air Pump.
Boyle: Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air.
Mariotte: Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air.
Newton: Law of Gravitation.
Hooke: Life. Law of Elastic Force.
Young: Modulus of Elasticity.
Coulomb: Life. The Force of Torsion. Sliding Friction.
Cavendish: Life. The Density of the Earth.
Torricelli: Efflux of Liquids.
Ampère: Molecules and Atoms.
PART 3: SOUND
Mersenne: Life. Musical Tones Produced by Strings.
Wallis: Life. Vibrations of Parts of Strings.
Sauveur: Life. Harmonics or Overtones.
Helmholtz: Life. The Quality of Musical Tones.
PART 4: HEAT
Newton: A Scale of the Degrees of Heat.
Amontons: Life. An Air-pressure Thermometer.
Fahrenheit: Life. The Fahrenheit Scale.
Taylor: Life. The Temperatures of Mixtures.
Black: Life. Specific Heat. Latent Heat. Of Vapour and Vaporisation.
Rumford: Life. Convection of Heat. Heat Produced by Friction.
Davy: Life. Heat Produced by Friction.
Gay-Lussac: Life. The Expansion of Gases by Heat. Free Expansion of Gases.
Joule: Free Expansion of Gases.
Joule and Thomson: Free Expansion of Gases.
Fourier: Life. Theory of Dimensions.
Dulong and Petit: Lives. Atomic Heat.
Cagniard de la Tour: Life. Critical Temperature.
Andrews: Life. Critical Temperature.
Cailletet: Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen, etc.
Pictet: Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen.
Mayer: Life. The Conservation of Energy.
Joule: Life. Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.
Helmoltz: The Conservation of Energy.
Carnot: Life. The Motive Power of Heat.
Clausius: Life. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy.
Kelvin: Life. An Absolute Scale of Temperature. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. An Absolute Scale of Temperature.
D. Bernoulli: Life. Kinetic Theory of Gases.
Brown: Life. The Brownian Movements.
Joule: The Velocity of Gaseous Molecules.
Maxwell: Life. The Distribution of Molecular Velocities.
Boltzmann: Life. Entropy and Probability.
PART 5: LIGHT
Descartes: Refraction of Light. The Rainbow.
Fermat: Life. Refraction of Light.
Bartholinus: Life. Double Refraction.
Huygens: Huygens' Principle. Reflection of Light. Refraction of Light.
Double Refraction and Polarization.
Grimaldi: Life. Diffraction of Light.
Newton: Dispersion of Light. The Nature of Light.
Young: Interference of Light. Interference of Light.
Malus: Life. Polarization by Reflection.
Fresnel: Life. Diffraction of Light. Diffraction of Light.
Arago and Fresnel: Life of Arago. Interference of Polarized Light.
Romer: Life. The Velocity of Light.
Bradley: Life. The Velocity of Light.
Fizeau: Life. The Velocity of Light.
Foucault: Life. The Velocity of Light.
Stokes: Life. Fluorescence.
Faraday: Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarization.
Kirchhoff: Life. The Fraunhofer Lines. Emission and Absorption.
Balmer: Life. The Hydrogen Spectral Series.
Rowland: Life. Plane and Concave Gratings.
Michelson and Morley: Lives. The Michelson-Morley Experiment.
Stefan: Life. Temperature Radiation.
Christiansen: Life. Anomalous Dispersion.
Kundt: Life. Anomalous Dispersion.
Zeeman: Life. The Zeeman Effect.
PART 6: MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY
Gilbert: Life. Magnetism and Electricity.
Von Guericke: Electric Attractions and Repulsions.
Gray: Life. Electric Conductors and Nonconductors.
Du Fay: Life. The Two Fluid Theory of Electricity.
Franklin: Life. The One Fluid Theory of Electricity. The Electric Kite.
Nollet: Life. The Leyden Jar.
Aepinus: Life. Pyroelectricity.
Coulomb: Law of Electric Force. Law of Magnetic Force.
Galvani: Life. The Electric Current.
Volta: Life. The Voltaic Pile.
Nicholson: Life. The Decomposition of Water.
Oersted: Life. The Action of Currents on Magnets.
Biot and Savart: Lives. Biot and Savart's Law.
Arago: Magnetization by the Current. Magnetism of Rotation.
Ampère: Life. New Names. Actions between Currents. The Solenoid. Circuits and Magnetic Shells.
Seebeck: Life. Thermoelectric Currents.
Ohm: Life. Ohm's Law.
Faraday: Life. Induced Currents. Self-induction. Static Electric Induction. Laws of Electrolysis. The Charge Resides on Surface. Specific Inductive Capacity. Diamagnetism. Physical Lines of Magnetic Force.
Lenz: Life. Lenz's Law.
Henry: Life. Self-induction. The Oscillatory Discharge.
Gauss: Life. The Absolute Measure of Magnetic Force.
Joule: Joule's Law.
Maxwell: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.
Rowland: The Magnetic Effect of Electric Convection.
Hall: Life. The Hall Effect.
P. Curie: Piezoelectricity.
Hertz: Life. Electric Radiation.
Hittorf: Life. The Cathode Discharge.
Crookes: Life. The Cathode Discharge.
Goldstein: Life. The Canal Rays.
Hallwachs: Life. Electric Discharge by Light.
Perrin: Life. The Negative Charges in the Cathode Discharge.
J. J. Thomson Life. The Electron.
Wien: Life. The Canal Rays.
Roentgen: Life. The Roentgen Rays.
H. Bequerel: Life. The Radiation from Uranium.
P. and M. S. Curie: Lives. Polonium. Radium
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