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A History of Science, Volume 1, by Henry Smith Williams
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A HISTORY OF SCIENCE BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, M.D.,
LL.D. ASSISTED BY EDWARD H. WILLIAMS, M.D.
IN FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME I.
THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE

BOOK I.
CONTENTS


CHAPTER I.
PREHISTORIC SCIENCE

CHAPTER II.
EGYPTIAN SCIENCE


CHAPTER III.
SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA


CHAPTER IV.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALPHABET


CHAPTER V.
THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK SCIENCE


CHAPTER VI.

THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY


CHAPTER VII.
GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD


CHAPTER VIII.
POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS


CHAPTER IX.
GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC
PERIOD


CHAPTER X.
SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD

CHAPTER XI.
A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE
APPENDIX
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
BOOK I
Should the story that is about to be unfolded be found to lack interest,
the writers must stand convicted of unpardonable lack of art. Nothing
but dulness in the telling could mar the story, for in itself it is the record
of the growth of those ideas that have made our race and its civilization
what they are; of ideas instinct with human interest, vital with meaning
for our race; fundamental in their influence on human development;
part and parcel of the mechanism of human thought on the one hand,
and of practical civilization on the other. Such a phrase as "fundamental
principles" may seem at first thought a hard saying, but the idea it
implies is less repellent than the phrase itself, for the fundamental
principles in question are so closely linked with the present interests of
every one of us that they lie within the grasp of every average man and
woman--nay, of every well-developed boy and girl. These principles
are not merely the stepping-stones to culture, the prerequisites of
knowledge--they are, in themselves, an essential part of the knowledge
of every cultivated person.
It is our task, not merely to show what these principles are, but to point
out how they have been discovered by our predecessors. We shall trace
the growth of these ideas from their first vague beginnings. We shall
see how vagueness of thought gave way to precision; how a general
truth, once grasped and formulated, was found to be a stepping-stone to
other truths. We shall see that there are no isolated facts, no isolated
principles, in nature; that each part of our story is linked by
indissoluble bands with that which goes before, and with that which
comes after. For the most part the discovery of