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CHAPTER XII.-SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF YOUNG AND
FRESNEL-RECEPTION OF THE UNDULATORY THEORY... 111
CHAPTER XIII.-CONFIRMATION AND EXTENSION OF THE
UNDULATORY THEORY
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CHAPTER I.—THE DOCTRINES OF CONDUCTION AND RADIATION.
Sect. 1. Introduction of the Doctrine of Conduction.....
Sect. 2.
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Radiation...
Sect. 3. Verification of the Doctrines of Conduction and Radiation..
Sect. 4. The Geological and Cosmological Application of Thermotics....
1. Effect of Solar Heat on the Earth..............
2. Climate...
3. Temperature of the Interior of the Earth.
4. Heat of the Planetary Spaces...
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Sect. 5. Correction of Newton's Law of Cooling.
149
Sect. 6. Other Laws of Phenomena with respect to Radiation.
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Sect. 7. Fourier's Theory of Radiant Heat..
152
Sect. 8. Discovery of the Polarization of Heat.
153
CHAPTER II. THE LAWS OF CHANGES OCCASIONED BY HEAT.
Sect. 1. Expansion by Heat.-The Law of Dalton and Gay-Lussac for
Gases.
157
Sect. 2. Specific Heat.-Change of Consistence...
Sect. 3. The Doctrine of Latent Heat..
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ATMOLOGY.
CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF VAPOR AND AIR.
Sect. 1. The Boylean Law of the Air's Elasticity....
Sect. 2. Prelude to Dalton's Doctrine of Evaporation..
Sect. 3. Dalton's Doctrine of Evaporation.....
Sect. 4. Determination of the Laws of the Elastic Force of Steam...
Sect. 5. Consequences of the Doctrine of Evaporation.-Explanation of
Rain, Dew, and Clouds.....
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CHAPTER I.-DISCOVERY OF LAWS OF ELECTRIC PHENOMENA 193
CHAPTER II. THE PROGRESS OF ELECTRICAL THEORY..... 201
Question of One or Two Fluids.....
210
Question of the Material Reality of the Electric Fluid..
212
BOOK XII.
HISTORY OF MAGNETISM.
CHAPTER I.-DISCOVERY OF LAWS OF MAGNETIC PHENOMENA 217
CHAPTER II.-RECEPTION AND CONFIRMATION OF the Dis-
COVERY OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY.
..... 240
CHAPTER III.-DISCOVERY OF THe Laws of the MUTUAL
ATTRACTION AND REPULSION OF VOLTAIC CURRENTS.—
AMPÈRE.........
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CHAPTER IV.-DISCOVERY OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ACTION.
CHAPTER V.-DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF ELECTRO-MAG-
CHAPTER VIII.-DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF MAGNETO-
CHAPTER I.-IMPROVEMENT OF THE NOTION OF CHEMICAL
ANALYSIS, AND RECOGNITION OF IT AS THE SPAGIRIC
ART..
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CHAPTER II.-DOCTRINE OF ACID AND ALKALI.-SYLVIUS.. 262
CHAPTER V.-CHEMISTRY OF GASES.-BLACK. CAVENDISH.. 272
CHAPTER VI.-EPOCH OF THE THEORY OF Oxygen.-LA-
VOISIER.
Sect. 1. Prelude to the Theory.-Its Publication.
Sect. 2. Reception and Confirmation of the Theory of Oxygen..
Sect. 3. Nomenclature of the Oxygen Theory...
CHAPTER VII.-APPLICATION AND CORRECTION OF THE
OXYGEN THEORY...
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CHAPTER VIII.-THEORY OF DEFINITE, RECIPROCAL, AND
MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS.
Sect. 1. Prelude to the Atomic Theory, and its Publication by Dalton.... 285
Sect. 2. Reception and Confirmation of the Atomic Theory.
Sect. 3. The Theory of Volumes.-Gay-Lussac
CHAPTER IX.-EPOCH OF DAVY AND FARADAY.
Sect. 1. Promulgation of the Electro-chemical Theory by Davy......
Sect. 2. Establishment of the Electro-chemical Theory by Faraday....
Sect. 3. Consequences of Faraday's Discoveries......
Sect. 4. Reception of the Electro-chemical Theory...
CHAPTER X.-TRANSITION FROM THE CHEMICAL TO THE
CLASSIFICATORY SCIENCES..
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Sect. 2. Of Mineralogy as the Analytico-classificatory Science.
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER I.-PRELUDE TO THE EPOCH OF DE LISLE AND
HACY.....
CHAPTER II.-EPOCH OF ROME DE LISLE AND HAŬY.—
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIXITY OF CRYSTALLINE AN-
GLES, AND THE SIMPLICITY OF THE LAWS OF DERIVA-
TION.
CHAPTER III-RECEPTION AND CORRECTIONS OF the Hau-
IAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY...
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