CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. CONTENTS xi
4. Biographical Note xv
5. I
6. History of Science 1
7. Four Guiding Ideas 15
8. Acta atque Agenda 23
9. The Scientific Basis of the History of Science 50
10. II
11. Avicenna: Physician, Scientist and Philosopher ( 980- 1037) 67
12. Maimonides: Philosopher and Physician ( 1135 - 1204) 78
13. The Quest for Truth: A Brief Account of Scientific Progress during the Renaissance 102
14. Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 ) 121
15. Simon Stevin of Bruges (1548-1620) 149
16. Rumphius, Plinius Indicus [the East Indian Pliny] (1628-1702) 189
17. Montucla (1725-1799) His Life and Works 197
18. Quetelet ( 1796-1874 ) 229
19. Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858 ) 243
20. Moseley (1887-1915) The Numbering of the Elements 268
21. III
22. [English as an International Language]: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Post, Februaiy 22, 1919 284
23. The Tower of Babel 287
24. Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Books 305
25. Incunabula Wrongly Dated 320
26. Iconographie Honesty 326
27. The Study of Early Scientific Textbooks 339
28. Remarks Concerning the History of Twentieth-Century Science 355
29. The Work of a Historian of Science 364
30. A Summing Up 367
31. INDEX 371