Pioneers of Science

by Oliver Lodge

Overview

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged in the year 1887 by A.C.B., J.M., G.H.R.), one of whom gave the course its name.

The book explains scientific facts and laws. The biographical details are compiled from all readily available sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789390439164
Publisher:	Vij Books
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I: 1. Copernicus and the motion of the earth; 2. Tycho Brahe and the earliest observatory; 3. Kepler and the laws of planetary motion; 4. Galileo and the invention of the telescope; 5. Galileo and the inquisition; 6. Descartes and his theory of vortices; 7. Sir Isaac Newton; 8. Newton and the law of gravitation; 9. Newton's 'Principia'; Part II: 10. Roemer and Bradley and the velocity of light; 11. Lagrange and Laplace; 12. Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars; 13. The discovery of the asteroids; 14. Bessel - the distances of the stars, and the discovery of the stellar planets; 15. The discovery of Neptune; 16. Comets and meteors; 17. The tides; 18. The tides, and planetary evolution; Index.