Produced by Charles Keller
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE
MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
By Henry Smith Williams, M.D., Ll.D.
Assisted By Edward H. Williams, M.D.
In Five Volumes
Volume III.
CONTENTS
BOOK III
CHAPTER I. THE SUCCESSORS OF NEWTON IN ASTRONOMY
The work of Johannes Hevelius--Halley and Hevelius--Halley's observation
of the transit of Mercury, and his method of determining the parallax of
the planets--Halley's observation of meteors--His inability to
explain these bodies--The important work of James Bradley--Lacaille's
measurement of the arc of the meridian--The determination of the
question as to the exact shape of the earth--D'Alembert and his
influence upon science--Delambre's History of Astronomy--The
astronomical work of Euler.