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William Gilbert 1544-1603 (Cambridge)
Weisstein
BBC
Galileo Project
Royal Observatory
electricity timeline
history of electrochemistry
Lynch magnetism
Copernicus 1473-1543 Polish
Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 (Trinity)
excerpts from Novum Organum (Classic Papers)

Weisstein
BBC
Luminarium
Galileo Project
Bacon Correspondence
Rocky Road
Galileo 1562-1642 Italian
Kepler 1571-1630 German
Robert Boyle 1627-1691
Royal Society founder
Sceptical Chymist (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image)
J Davidson's Annotations to Sceptical Chymist

St. Andrews
BBC
Weisstein
Woodrow Wilson
Victorian Web
Charlesworth
chemsoc
Robert Boyle Project
Galileo Project
Chemical Achievers (Chemical Heritage)
Breaking the Chemical Barrier (Fromm)
Transition from Alchemy (Fromm)
Transition from Alchemy (Charlesworth)
Oxford Science Walk
Descartes 1596-1650 French
Robert Hooke 1635-1703 (Oxford)
First Curator of the Royal Society

St. Andrews
BBC
Weisstein
Dublin
Hooke Science Center
Micrographia Restaurata
Galileo Project
Rocky Road
UC Museum of Paleontology
pioneers in optics
Huygens 1629-1695
Dutch
Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723 (Oxford)
Royal Society founder, President

St. Andrews
BBC
Dublin
Wren site (Campbell)
Galileo Project

Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 (Trinity)
President of the Royal Society
Principia Mathematica
Optics (Modern History Sourcebook)
Optics (Classic Papers)
buried at Westminster Abbey


prisms
BBC
luminarium
St. Andrews
Weisstein
Dublin
chemsoc
newton.org.uk
Cambridge science landmarks
Cambridge library exhibit
Galileo Project
Newton Project (Imperial College)
pioneers in optics
Cambridge at the Time of Newton (Westfall)
representations of Newton 

Captain Edmund Halley, FRS 1656-1742 (Oxford)
Astronomer Royal, explorer

St. Andrews
BBC
Weisstein
Dublin
Royal Observatory
Longitude Problem (St. Andrews)
Galileo Project


Sir Henry Cavendish, FRS 1731-1810 (Cambridge)
Experiments on Air (Classic Papers)

Weisstein
BBC
EuCheMS Millenium
Dublin
Florida Atlantic
The Gases (Charlesworth)
history of electrochemistry
The Gases (Fromm)

Joseph Priestley, FRS 1733-1804
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (Classic Papers)


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Leyden jar
Weisstein
Woodrow Wilson
Charlesworth
EuCheMS Millenium
Spartacus
electrostatic machine
Electromagnetic Personalities

Chemical Achievers
phlogiston (Fromm)
The Gases (Fromm)
Breaking the Chemical Barrier (Fromm)
Romantic Natural History
The Gases (Charlesworth)
Lynch magnetism
Franklin 1706-1790 American
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS
1753-1814
Founder of Royal Institution
Heat is a Form of Motion 1798 (Chem Team)

Weisstein
Lynch
Dublin
Royal Institution
Sir Humphrey Davy 1778-1829
Royal Institution
President of the Royal Society
Production of Sodium and Potassium (Chem Team)
Chlorine 1811 (Chem Team)

San Jose State
BBC
Woodrow Wilson
Charlesworth
EuCheMS Millenium
history of electrochemistry
electricity timeline
Chemical Achievers
Trail of the Elements (Fromm)
Electrolysis (Fromm)
Atoms (Charlesworth)
Royal Institution
Lavoisier 1743-1794 French
Berzelius 1779-1848 Swedish
Michael Faraday, FRS 1791-1867
Royal Institution
On Electrical Decomposition (Chem Team)
Lectures on the Forces of Matter 1859 (Modern History Sourcebook)
The Chemical History of a Candle 1860 (Modern History Sourcebook)
Helmholtz on Faraday's Conception of Electricity
(Chem Team)

Magnetism from Electricity

Electricity from Magnetism

induction coils
galvanometer
St. Andrews
BBC
Weisstein
Victorian Web
Woodrow Wilson
Charlesworth
EuCheMS Millenium
Royal Institution biography
history of electrochemistry
electricity timeline
Electromagnetic Personalities
Chemical Achievers
Atoms (Charlesworth)
Lynch magnetism
Henry 1797-1878 American

Last updated: September 27, 2007