Scientific Culture, and Other Essays
by Jr. Josiah P. Cooke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons), 1827-1894
- Title
- Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions
- Credits
- Produced by Sharon Joiner, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Science
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37427
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37427
- Release Date
- September 15, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, — AND OTHER ESSAYS . — BY JOSIAH PARSONS COOKE, LL. D., PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY, IN HARVARD COLLEGE. — SECOND EDITION; WITH ADDITIONS. — NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, and 5 BOND STREET. 1885. — TO MY ASSOCIATES IN THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF HARVARD COLLEGE THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS. — ESSAYS. — I.
- 4.SCIENTIFIC CULTURE. — An Address delivered July 7, 1875, at the Opening of the Summer Courses of Instruction in Chemistry, at Harvard University. — II.
- 5.THE NOBILITY OF KNOWLEDGE. — An Address delivered before the Free Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, July 28, 1874. — III.
- 6.THE ELEMENTARY TEACHING OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE. — An Address to the Schoolmasters of Boston, delivered February 4, 1878. — IV.
- 7.THE RADIOMETER: — A FRESH EVIDENCE OF A MOLECULAR UNIVERSE. — A Lecture delivered in the Sanders Theatre of Harvard University, March 6, 1878. — V.
- 8.MEMOIR OF THOMAS GRAHAM. — Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," Vol. VIII, May 24, 1870. — VI.
- 9.MEMOIR OF WILLIAM HALLOWES MILLER. — Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," Vol. XVI, May 24, 1881. — VII.
- 10.WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS. — VIII.
- 11.JEAN-BAPTISTE-ANDRÉ DUMAS. [K] — IX.
- 12.THE GREEK QUESTION. [N] — X.
- 13.FURTHER REMARKS ON THE GREEK QUESTION. — XI.
- 14.SCIENTIFIC CULTURE; — ITS SPIRIT, ITS AIM, AND ITS METHODS. [P] — XII.
- 15."NOBLESSE OBLIGE." — XIII.
- 16.THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. [Q] — THE END. — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AND ESSAYS.
- 18.WORKS ON ASTRONOMY.
- 19.WORKS ON GEOLOGY, Etc. — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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