Masterworks of science
Subtitle: digests of 13 great classics
By: edited by John Warren Knedler, Jr.
Series: [Masterworks series]
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, inc.
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
Subjects: Science.
Notes: "First edition."
Table of contents: title: The elements, by Euclid.; title: On floating bodies, and other propositions, by Archimedes.; title: On the revolution of the heavenly spheres, by Nikolaus Copernicus.; title: Dialogues concerning two new sciences, by Galileo.; title: Principia by Isaac Newton.; title: The atomic theory, by John Dalton.; title: Principles of geology, by Charles Lyell.; title: The origin of species, by Charles Darwin.; title: Experimental researches of electricity, by Michael Faraday.; title: Experiments in plant-hybridization, by G.J. Mendel.; title: The periodic law, by D.I. Mendeleyev.; title: Radioactivity, by Marie Curle.; title: Relativity: the special and general theory, by Albert Einstein.