Extract of Mr Dutens Inquiry Into the Origin of the Discoveries Attributed to the Moderns
An inquiry by Louis Dutens into the true origins of discoveries commonly attributed to modern thinkers, arguing that many scientific and philosophical advances were actually known to the ancients. A fascinating study in the history of ideas.
23 Chapters
Table of Contents
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0.2 - Introduction
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0.4 - The Authors Preface
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Chapter 01 - Of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Fallopian Tubes
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Chapter 02 - Of the Chirurgery of the Ancients
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Chapter 03 - Of Generation
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Chapter 04 - Of the Sexual System of Plants
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Chapter 05 - Of the Chemistry of Tile Ancients
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Chapter 06 - Of Sensible Qualities
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Chapter 07 - Of Animated Nature
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Chapter 08 - Nature Active And Animated
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Chapter 09 - Of Thunder and Earthquakes; Of the Virtue of Tile Magnet; Of the Ebbing and Flowing ...
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Chapter 10 - Of Ether. And the Weight and Elasticity of the Air
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Chapter 11 - Newtons Theory of Colours, Indicated by Pythagoras and Plato
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Chapter 12 - Of Burning Glasses
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Chapter 13 - Of Universal Gravity, and Centripetal and Centrifugal Force
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Chapter 14 - Of the Copernican System; The Motion of the Earth about the Sun; And the Antipodes
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Chapter 15 - Of the Revolution of the Planets about Their Own Axis
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Chapter 16 - The Milky Way; Solar Systems, or a Plurality of Worlds
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Chapter 17 - Of Comets
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Chapter 18 - Of the Refraction of Light, and Astronomical Refraction; And of Perspective
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Chapter 19 - Of the Many Discoveries of the Ancients in Mathematics, &c
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Chapter 20 - Of Archimedes; Of the Mechanics and Architecture of the Ancients; And of Microscopes...
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Chapter 21 - CONCLUSION