GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE AUTHOR'S PREFACE MECHANICS GALILEO Life. Acceleration and Laws of Falling Bodies. The Pendulum Motion of Projectiles STEVINUS Lifc. The Inclined Plane HUYGENS Life. Theorems on Centrifugal Force NEWTON Life. Definitions. Axioms or Laws of Motion VARIGNON Life. Varignon's Theorem. Jean Bernoulli's Principle of Virtual Velocities DESCARTES Life. Quantity of Motion LEIBNITZ Quantity of Motion Life D'ALEMBERT Life. Quantity of Motion YOUNG Life. Energy LAGRANGE Life. Principle of Virtual Velocities POINSOT Life. Forces and Couples PROPERTIES OF MATTER GALILEO Rise of Water in a Pump TORRICELLI The Barometer PASCAL Life.Fluid Pressure VON GUERICKE Life. Experiments with the Barometer Life. The Air Pump BoYLE Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air MARIOTTE Life. Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air NEWTON Law of Gravitation HoOKE Life. Law of Elastic Force YOUNG Modulus of Elasticity COULOMB Life. The Force of Torsion. Sliding Friction
CAVENDISH Life. The Density of the Earth TORRICELLI Effux of Liquids AMP?RE Molecules and Atoms SOUND MERSENNE Life. Musical Tones Produced by Strings WALLIS Life.Vibrations of Parts of Strings SAUVEUR Life.Harmonics or Overtones HELMHOLTZ Life. The Quality of Musical Tones HEAT NEWTON A Scale of the Degrees of Heat AMONTONS Life. An Air-pressure Thermometer FAHRENHEIT Life. The Fahrenheit Scale TAYLOR Life. The Temperatures of Mixtures BLACK Life.Specific Heat. Latent Heat.of Vapour and Vaporisation RUMFORD Life. Convection of Heat. Heat Produced by Friction DAVY Life. Heat Produced by Friction GAY-LUSSAC Life. The Expansion of Gases by Heat. Free Expansion of Gases JOULE Free Expansion of Gases JOULE AND THOMSON Free Expansion of Gases FOURIER Lifc. Theory of Dimensions DULONG AND PETIT Lives. Atomic Heat CAGNIARD DE LA TOUR Life. Critical Temperature ANDREWS Life. Critical Temperature CAILLETET Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen, etc PICTET Life. Liquefaction of Oxygen MAYER Life. The Conservation of Energy
JOULE Life. Mechanical Equivalent of Heat HELMHOLTZ The Conservation of Energy CARNOT Life. The Motive Power of Heat CLAUSIUS Life. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy KELVIN Life. An Absolute Scale of Temperature.The Second Law of Thermodynamics. An Absolute Scale of Temperature D.BERNOULLI Life. Kinetic Theory of Gases BROWN Life. The Brownian Movements JOULE The Velocity of Gaseous Molecules MAXWELL Life. The Distribution of Molecular Velocities BOLTZMANN Life. Entropy and Probability LIGHT DESCARTES Refraction of Light. The Rainbow FERMAT Life. Refraction of Light BARTHOLINUS Life. Double Refraction HUYGENS Huygens' Principle. Reffection of Light. Refraction of Light Double Refraction and Polarization GRIMALDI Life. Diffraction of Light NEWTON Dispersion of Light. The Nature of Light YOUNG Interferenee of Light. Interferenee of Light MALUS Life. Polarization by Refleetion FRESNEL Life.Diffraetion of Light. Diffraetion of Light ARAGO AND FRESNEL Life of Arago. Interferenee of Polarized Light ROEMER Life.The Velocity of Light.>The Velocity of Light BRADLEY Life.The Velocity of Light FIZEAU Lifc. The Veloeity of Light FOUCAULT
Life. The Veloeity of Light STOKES Life. Fluoreseenee FARADAY Magnetie Rotation of the Plane of Polarization KIRCHHOFF Life. The Fraunhofer Lines. Emission and Absorption BALMER Life. The Hydrogen Speetral Series ROWLAND Life. Plane and Coneave Gratings MICHELSON AND MORLEY Lives. The Miehelson-Morley Experiment STEFAN Life. Temperature Radiation CHRISTIANSEN Life. Anomalous Dispersion KUNDT Life. Anomalous Dispersion ZEEMAN Life.The Zeeman Effeet MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY GILBERT Life. Magnetism and Eleetrieity VON GUERICKE Eleetrie Attraetions and Repulsions GRAY Life. Eleetrie Conduetors and Noneonduetors DU FAY Life. The Two Fluid Theory of Eleetrieity FRANKLIN Life. The One Fluid Theory of Electricity. The Electric Kite NOLLET Life. The Leyden Jar AEPINUS Life. Pyroelectricity COULOMB Law of Electric Force. Law of Magnetic Force GALVANI Life. The Electric Current VOLTA Life. The Voltaic Pile NICHOLSON Life. The Decomposition of Water OERSTED Life. The Action of Currents on Magnets BIOT AND SAVART Lives. Biot and Savart's Law ARAGO Magnetization by the Current. Magnetism of Rotation
AMP?RE Life. New Names. Actions between Currents. The Solenoid Circulte ond Moonetic Shells SEEBECK Life. Thermoelectric Currents OHM Life. Ohm's Law FARADAY Life. Induced Currents. Self-induction. Static Electric Induc tion. Laws of Electrolysis. The Charge Resides on Surface Specific Inductive Capacity. Diamagretism. Physical Lines of Magnetic Force LENZ Life. Lenz's Law HENRY Life. Self-induction. The Oscillatory Discharge GAUSS Life. The Absolute Measure of Magnetic Force JOULE Joule's Law MAXWELL A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field ROWLAND The Magnetic Effect of Electric Convection HALL Life. The Hall Effect P. CURIE Piezoelectricity HERTZ Life. Electric Radiation HITTORF The Cathode Discharge Life CROOKES Life. The Cathode Discharge GOLDSTEIN Life. The Canal Rays HALLWACHS Life. Electric Discharge by Light PERRIN Life.The Negative Charges in the Cathode Discharge J.J.THOMSON Life. The Electron WIEN Life. The Canal Rays ROENTGEN Life. The Roentgen Rays H. BECQUEREL Life. The Radiation from Uranium P. AND M. S. CURIE
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