PROF. EVERETT'S admirable adaptation of “Deschanel's Natural Philosophy” is so well known as a text-book, that it needs no commendation from us. We heartily welcome this sixth and greatly ...

He relates the work to the tradition of late Scholastic textbooks which it follows, and also to Descartes' other philosophical writings, and he examines the ways in which Descartes transformed not ...

Peter M. Harman is Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University. He has published primarily on the history of physics and natural philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries, the period ...

As we journey backward through the portals of time, long before the birthing of modern scientific thought, it becomes increasingly difficult to locate women whose contributions were noteworthy. One ...