Book - A History of Science

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Williams HS. A History of Science. (1904) Harper and Bros. New York.

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A 5 volume set of texts published early in the 20th century. I recommend reading the 5 volumes as they are an interesting read and written with a different "feel" in language to those texts written today where brevity is carried to such lengths as to make most writings either bland or uninteresting. Note the text has been unedited and the historic nature of these articles may also include some inaccuracies.

1. The Beginnings of Modern Science - Arabian Medicine The influence of Arabian physicians rested chiefly upon their use of drugs rather than upon anatomical knowledge...
2. Mediaeval Science in the West We have previously referred to the influence of the Byzantine civilization in transmitting the learning of antiquity across the abysm of the dark age....
3. The Great Anatomists About the beginning of the sixteenth century, while Paracelsus was scoffing at the study of anatomy as useless, and using his influence against it, there had already come upon the scene the first of the great anatomists whose work was to make the century conspicuous in that branch of medicine...
4. The coming of Harvey The time was ripe for the culminating discovery of the circulation of the blood; but as yet no one had determined the all-important fact that there are two currents of blood in the body, one going to the heart, one coming from it....
5. Leeuwenhoek Discovers Bacteria The seventeenth century was not to close, however, without another discovery in science, which, when applied to the causation of disease almost two centuries later, revolutionized therapeutics more completely than any one discovery...
6. Medicine in the 16th and 17th Century
7. Philosopher-Scientists and new Institutions
8. 18th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 1
9. 18th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 2
10. 18th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 3
11. 19th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 1
12. 19th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 2
13. 19th Century Anatomy and Physiology Part 3
14. Theories Of Evolution Part 1
15. Theories Of Evolution Part 2
16. 18th Century Medicine
17. 19th Century Medicine Part 1
18. 19th Century Medicine Part 2
19. Brain and Mind
20. Brain Structure

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