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Table of Contents
| Portrait of William Harvey |
Frontispiece |
| Bramwell, John Milne |
PAGE |
| Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory |
1 |
| Buffon, Comte de |
| Natural History |
12 |
| Chambers, Robert |
| Vestiges of Creation |
22 |
| Cuvier, Georges |
| The Surface of the Globe |
33 |
| Darwin, Charles |
| The Origin of Species |
43 |
| Davy, Sir Humphry |
| Elements of Chemical Philosophy |
64 |
| Faraday, Michael |
| Experimental Researches in Electricity |
75 |
| The Chemical History of a Candle |
85 |
| Forel, Auguste |
| The Senses of Insects |
95 |
| Galileo |
| Dialogues on the System of the World |
105 |
| Galton, Sir Francis |
| Essays in Eugenics |
111 |
| Haeckel, Ernst |
| The Evolution of Man |
123 |
| Harvey, William |
| On the Motion of the Heart and Blood |
136 |
| Herschel, Sir John |
| Outlines of Astronomy |
146 |
| Humboldt, Alexander von |
| Cosmos, a Sketch of the Universe |
158 |
| Hutton, James |
| The Theory of the Earth |
170 |
| Lamarck |
| Zoological Philosophy |
179 |
| Lavater, Johann |
| Physiogonomical Fragments |
191 |
| Liebig, Justus von |
| Animal Chemistry |
203 |
| Lyell, Sir Charles |
| The Principles of Geology |
215 |
| Maxwell, James Clerk |
| A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism |
227 |
| Metchnikoff, Elie |
| The Nature of Man |
238 |
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