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Book Iv.--Physical Science in the Middle Ages.

History of the Inductive Sciences, From the Earliest to the Present Time · William Whewell — chapter 6 of 210 · ~64 words · public domain

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General Remarks. 511

PROGRESS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Thomas Aquinas. 512 Roger Bacon. 512

BOOK V.--FORMAL ASTRONOMY.

PRELUDE TO COPERNICUS.

Nicolas of Cus. 523

THE COPERNICAN THEORY.

The Moon's Rotation. 524 M. Foucault's Experiments. 525

SEQUEL TO COPERNICUS.

English Copernicans. 526 Giordano Bruno. 530 Did Francis Bacon reject the Copernican Doctrine? 530 Kepler persecuted. 532 The Papal Edicts against the Copernican System repealed. 534

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