Science in the Age of Reason

Lessons

• 1 Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
• 2 *optional* Edmond Halley and the Stars
• 3 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
• 4 Thomas Fairchild (1667-1729)
• 5 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
• 6 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759)
• 7 Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
• 7b Review and Test
• 8 Stephen Hales (1677-1761)
• 9 *optional* Stephen Hales and Animal Physiology
• 10 Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761)
• 11 Stephen Gray (1666-1736)
• 12 Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782)
• 13 Leonard Euler (1707-1783)
• 14 *optional* Leonard Euler and Light
• 15 Rene Antione Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757)
• 15b Review and Test
• 16 Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
• 17 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
• 18 Buffon and Spontaneous Generation
• 19 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• 20 Benjamin Franklin and Lightning Rods
• 21 Some of Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments Were Cool
• 21b Review and Test
• 22 *optional* Benjamin Franklin and Ocean Currents
• 23 *optional* Benjamin Franklin and Music
• 24 Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
• 25 Carl Linnaeus and Binomial Names
• 26 James Lind (1716-1794)
• 27 James Lind and Distillation
• 28 Joseph Black (1728-1799)
• 29 Joseph Black and Specific Heat
• 30 *optional* Joseph Black and Carbon Dioxide
• 30b Review and Test
• 31 John Michell (1724-1793)
• 32 *optional* John Michell and Geology
• 33 Johan Carl Wilcke (1732-1796)
• 34 Henry Cavendish (1731-1810)
• 35 Henry Cavendis’s Other Major Contributions
• 36 James Watt (1736-1819)
• 37 *optional* James Watt’s Other Work
• 38 *optional* David Bushnell (1740-1824)
• 39 Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
• 39b Review and Test
• 40 Joseph Priestley and Oxygen
• 41 Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794)
• 42 Lavoisier and The Conservation of Mass
• 43 Lavoisier and Elements
• 44 Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)
• 45 Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
• 45b Review and Test
• 46 Alessandro Volta and the Battery
• 47 Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799)
• 48 Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
• 49 Erasmus Darwin and Weather
• 50 *optional* Erasmus Darwin and Artesian Wells
• 51 *optional* Erasmus Darwin and Animals
• 52 Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822)
• 53 The Herschels and Infrared Light
• 53b Review and Test
• 54 Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799)
• 55 Lazzaro Spallanzani and Digestion
• 56 *optional* Lazzaro Spallanzani and Bats
• 57 Charles-Augustine de Coulomb (1736-1806)
• 58 Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles (1746-1823)
• 59 Pierre Prevost (1751-1839)
• 60 Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762-1807)
• 60b Review and Test
• 61 James Hutton (1726-1797)
• 62 James Hutton and Erosion
• 63 James Hutton and Sedimentary Rock
• 64 *optional* James Hutton and Rain
• 65 Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
• 66 Joseph Louis Proust (1754-1826)
• 67 Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
• 68 *optional* Sir Humphry Davy and Acids
• 68b Review and Test
• 69 Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)
• 70 William Nicholson (1753-1815)
• 71 John Dalton (1766-1844)
• 72 John Dalton’s Atomic Theory, Part 1
• 73 John Dalton’s Atomic Theory, Part 2
• 74 John Dalton’s Atomic Theory, Part 3 (The Final Part)
• 75 *optional* John Dalton and Color Blindness
• 75b Review and Test
• 76 William Henry (1775-1836)
• 77 Thomas Young (1773-1829)
• 78 Thomas Young And Light Waves
• 79 Thomas Young And Color
• 80 Thomas Young And Color Vision
• 81 *optional* Thomas Young And Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• 82 William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828)
• 82b Review and Test
• 83 William Hyde Wollaston and Muscles
• 84 William Hyde Wollaston And the Sun
• 85 *optional* William Hyde Wollaston And Crystals
• 86 Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826)
• 87 Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1853)
• 88 Nicolas-Theodore de Saussure (1767-1845)
• 89 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)
• 90 *optional* Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli (1761-1818)
• 90b Review and Test