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Progress of Modern Science (FROM A D) (II)

FROM A. D. 1790 ΤΟ 1811.

Astronomy.

Physics and Mechanics. chemical electri- Chemistry. cause of sun-1798. Rumford guillotined. 1792. Voltaic or 1793. Herschel on city. 1794. Lavoisier spots. boils water by friction. 1799. Davy melts 1799. Laplace's ice by friction. "Méchanique 1800. Voltaic Pile. 1800. Nicholson Céleste." 1800. Sir W. Herschel discovers dark heat-rays. 1801. Piazzi dis- 1801. Ritter discovers Ceres, the covers chemical first of the asteroids. rays. of 1801. Young on interference light. 1802-4-7. Dis- 1802. Wedgwood covery of other and Davy, sunasteroids. Olbers pictures. suggests that they 1802. are fragments of a planet. 1803. Biot on meteoric stones.

Wollaston, lines of spectrum. 1804. Fraunhofer Physical Geography and Geology.

Biology.

Goethe on the metamorphosis of plants. 1790. Wm. Smith 1790. studies the succession of strata. 1790. De Saussure studies the action of glaciers. 1799. Humboldt's journeys in America. He 1800. Cuvier's lecand Carlisle, decomposition of traces isothermal lines. water. laughing gas. 1800. Davy on tures on anatomy; he insists on the fitness of organisation in individual animals. 1801. Lamarck on development of animals. 1802. G. St.-Hilaire brings zoological collections from Egypt. compares lines in 1806. Davy on the spectrum of electrolysis; dissun and stars. covers potassium and sodium. 1804. Humboldt on distribution of plants. 1808. Malus discovers polarization of light by reflection. 1808. Dalton, law of multiple proportions; atomic theory. 1808. Gay Lussac on combination in multiple-volumes. 1811. Leslie and 1811. Avogadro on Melloni on heat molecular com rays. position of gases.