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Title: The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science

Author: Various

Editor: John Alexander Hammerton

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THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

JOINT EDITORS

ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge

J.A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

VOL. XV

SCIENCE

WM. H. WISE & Co.

_Table of Contents_

PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HARVEY _Frontispiece_

PAGE

BRAMWELL, JOHN MILNE
Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory 1

BUFFON, COMTE DE
Natural History 12

CHAMBERS, ROBERT
Vestiges of Creation 22

CUVIER, GEORGES
The Surface of the Globe 33

DARWIN, CHARLES
The Origin of Species 43

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY
Elements of Chemical Philosophy 64

FARADAY, MICHAEL
Experimental Researches in Electricity 75
The Chemical History of a Candle 85

FOREL, AUGUSTE
The Senses of Insects 95

GALILEO
Dialogues on the System of the World 105

GALTON, SIR FRANCIS
Essays in Eugenics 111

HAECKEL, ERNST
The Evolution of Man 123

HARVEY, WILLIAM
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood 136

HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN
Outlines of Astronomy 146

HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON
Cosmos, a Sketch of the Universe 158

HUTTON, JAMES
The Theory of the Earth 170

LAMARCK
Zoological Philosophy 179

LAVATER, JOHANN
Physiogonomical Fragments 191

LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON
Animal Chemistry 203

LYELL, SIR CHARLES
The Principles of Geology 215

MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 227