Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Short History of Natural Science: And of the Progress of Discovery From Time of the Greeks to the Present Day, for the Use of Schools and Young Persons
Anaxagoras studies the Moon - Describes Eclipses of the Sun and Moon - IS Tried and Condemned for Denying that the Sun is a God - Hippocrates the Father of Medicine - Separates the office of Priest and Doctor - Studies the Human Body Eudoxus has an Observatory - Makes a Map of the Stars Explains the Movements of the Planets - Democritus studies the Milky Way - Aristotle an Astronomer and Zoologist Divides Animals into Classes - Teaches that there is a Gradual.
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