Index


Orange numbers indicate the lecture to which the entry is linked.
Entries in italics refer to books and other works.

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E

earth, structure of 31
East India Company
25 British -
   25 company college
   25 and pseudo-science
25 Dutch -
eclipse
lunar,
  17 latitude determination through -
  15 observed in China
solar,
  17 latitude determination through -
  15 observed in China
ecliptic 7
École Polytechnique 21
economic growth 35
Edict of Milan 12
Edirne 16 19
Edison 26
EDVAC 32
Egyptian civilization
7 calendar
9 medicine
4 numbers
2 origin
Einstein 28 29 33
33 and infinite universe
29 letter to Roosevelt
Einstein-Maric 28
electric light 26
electricity 27
electric potential 27
electromagnetic spectrum 28 33
electromagnetic wave 28
electron 24
elements (chemistry) 24
24 Lavoisier's definition
24 modern definition
24 Periodic Table of -
Elements (Eucleides) 10
Elizabeth I 20 22 31
Emperor's Mirror 22
enclosure 20 29
encyclopaedia 22
22 Arabic
22 Chinese
Encyclopedia Americana 22
Encyclopædia Britannica 22
Encyclopédie 22
Encyclopédie méthodique 22

Engels 27
English Eugenics Society 34
ENIAC 32
Enlightenment 20
environment
34 and ethics
21 effect of steam engine
epicycle 8 11 19
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy 19
Equitable Society 32
Erasistratos 9
Erasmus 19 20
Eratosthenes 10
Essay on the Principle of Population 25
ether 27 28
ethics 1
8 in Plato's teachings
22 and Enlightenment
19 and Galilei's retraction
34 and genetics
20 and Newton
9 and vivisection
19 capitalist -
34 environmental -
14 in Indian philosophy
19 35 scientific -
Etruscan civilization 11
11 attitude to science
Eucleides (Euclid) 10 13
Elements of Geometry 10
Euclidian coordinates, see Cartesian c. 19
Eudoxus of Cnidus 8 11
eugenics 34
34 and fascism
34 positive vs. negative -
Euler 23
evolution 25 34
25 human -
25 Augustine on -
25 Darwin on -
25 Lamarck on -
Exchequer 6 chancellor of the -
experiment
21 22 basis of science
20 for entertainment
8 lack of - in ancient Greece
exploration voyages
17 Chinese - around the world
20 colonial -
17 Columbus, to America
25 26 scientific -
Exposition du système du monde 33