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THE idea upon which this book is constructed is an admirable one. By means of extracts and translations from the writings of great philosophers and investigators, a panorama of scientific history is presented in a most attractive form. Beginning with Aristotle and his Natural History, the author passes before the reader in historical succession the works and thoughts of Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Gilbert, Kepler, Newton, Huyghens, Laplace, Lavoisier, Blumenbach, Cuvier, Darwin, and the host of other great thinkers and workers, who have helped to build up the edifice of scientific knowledge. To do this, Ostwald's excellent series of “Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften” have been largely utilised. But we hasten to remark that the present volume does not merely consist of extracts and illustrations from series of reprints. A biographical note precedes the story in which each investigator tells of his work, and helpful editorialnotes are distributed throughout the book.
Grundriss einer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften.
Von Dr. Friedrich Dannemann. 1. Band. Erläuterte Abschnitte aus der Werken hervorragender Naturforscher. Pp. xii + 375. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896.)
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Grundriss einer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Nature 54, 316 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054316a0
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