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Introduction to the History of Science

Public domain audiobook

Introduction to the History of Science

by Walter Libby

English· 08:18:16· 21 chapters
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    00 Preface

    05:45
  2. Chapter 2

    01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia

    24:27
  3. Chapter 3

    02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle

    26:58
  4. Chapter 4

    03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius

    22:27
  5. Chapter 5

    04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs

    24:28
  6. Chapter 6

    05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon

    27:49
  7. Chapter 7

    06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes

    23:46
  8. Chapter 8

    07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle

    23:03
  9. Chapter 9

    08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society

    26:40
  10. Chapter 10

    09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin

    26:13
  11. Chapter 11

    10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith

    23:00
  12. Chapter 12

    11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel

    22:23
  13. Chapter 13

    12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule

    26:12
  14. Chapter 14

    13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy

    25:29
  15. Chapter 15

    14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune

    22:41
  16. Chapter 16

    15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle

    27:49
  17. Chapter 17

    16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister

    31:51
  18. Chapter 18

    17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane

    22:54
  19. Chapter 19

    18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances

    21:04
  20. Chapter 20

    19 The Scientific Imagination

    20:45
  21. Chapter 21

    20 Science and Democratic Culture

    22:32