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Pioneers of Science

Pioneers of Science

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PIONEERS OF SCIENCE



NEWTON
NEWTON
From the picture by Kneller, 1689, now at Cambridge

PIONEERS OF SCIENCE


BY
OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN VICTORIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL




WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS



London

MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1893






Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
LONDON AND BUNGAY.




PREFACE

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for me in the year 1887 by three of my colleagues (A.C.B., J.M., G.H.R.), one of whom gave the course its name.

The lectures having been found interesting, it was natural to write them out in full and publish.

If I may claim for them any merit, I should say it consists in their simple statement and explanation of scientific facts and laws. The biographical details are compiled from all readily available sources, there is no novelty or originality about them; though it is hoped that there may be some vividness. I have simply tried to present a living figure of each Pioneer in turn, and to trace his influence on the progress of thought.

I am indebted to many biographers and writers, among others to Mr. E.J.C. Morton, whose excellent set of lives published by the S.P.C.K. saved me much trouble in the early part of the course.

As we approach recent times the subject grows more complex, and the men more nearly contemporaries; hence the biographical aspect diminishes and the scientific treatment becomes fuller, but in no case has it been allowed to become technical and generally unreadable.

To the friends (C.C.C., F.W.H.M., E.F.R.) who with great kindness have revised the proofs, and have indicated places where the facts could be made more readily intelligible by a clearer statement, I express my genuine gratitude.

University College, Liverpool,
November, 1892.


CONTENTS

PART I
LECTURE I
PAGE
COPERNICUS AND THE MOTION OF THE EARTH 2
LECTURE II
TYCHO BRAHÉ AND THE EARLIEST OBSERVATORY 32
LECTURE III
KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION 56
LECTURE IV
GALILEO AND THE INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE 80
LECTURE V
GALILEO AND THE INQUISITION 108
LECTURE VI
DESCARTES AND HIS THEORY OF VORTICES 136
LECTURE VII
SIR ISAAC NEWTON 159
LECTURE VIII
NEWTON AND THE LAW OF GRAVITATION 180
LECTURE IX
NEWTON'S "PRINCIPIA" 203

PART II
LECTURE X
ROEMER AND BRADLEY AND THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT 232
LECTURE XI
LAGRANGE AND LAPLACE—THE STABILITY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS 254
LECTURE XII

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