Masterworks of science
By: edited by John Warren Knedler, Jr.
Series: Masterworks series; McGraw-Hill paperbacks; Masterworks series; McGraw-Hill paperbacks
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Science.
Notes: Reprint of the one-vol. ed. published in 1947 by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.

LIBRARY HAS v.3 ONL.
Table of contents: v. 1 Euclid.  The elements.  Archimedes.  On floating bodies, and other propositions.  N. Copernicus.  On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.  I. Newton.  Principia.  A. Einstein.  Relativity, the special and general theory.; v. 2. Galileo.  Dialogues concerning two new sciences.  J. Dalton.  The atomic theory.  M. Faraday.  Experimental researches in electricity.  D. Mendeleyev.  The periodic law.  M. Curie.  Radioactivity.; v. 3. C. Lyle.  Principles of geology.  C. Darwin.  The origin of species.  G. Mendel.  Experiments in plant-hybridization.