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Pioneers of Science

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Availle)

Year of Publication: 1893Genres: Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

Running Time: 11 hours 14 minutes 17 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Preface Availle	2:24
2	Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth Kathleen Nelson	41:43
3	Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory James Christopher	32:12
4	Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion Utek	51:15
5	Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the Telescope Megan Argo	40:22
6	Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition Megan Argo	41:51
7	Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices Availle	46:41
8	Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton Amy Gramour	38:15
9	Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation Edward W. LaBonte	37:26
10	Lecture IX: Newton's "Principia" John Kooz	55:27
11	Lecture X: Roemer and Bradley and the Velocity of Light Mark F. Smith	39:09
12	Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis Michael Lipschultz	33:07
13	Lecture XII: Herschel and the Motion of the Fixed Stars Kathleen Nelson	32:14
14	Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods Ali Kazerani	16:15
15	Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets Availle	29:08
16	Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune Ali Kazerani	23:27
17	Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors John Kooz	34:02
18	Lecture XVII: The Tides J. M. Smallheer	37:42
19	Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution Simon Dexter	41:37