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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 200. Chapters: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Isaac Newton, William Crookes, Robert Hooke, Alessandro Volta, Hipparchus, Roger Bacon, Christiaan Huygens, Jean-Charles de Borda, Edmond Halley, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, John Harrison, Ole Romer, Tycho Brahe, Christopher Wren, William Herschel, David Brewster, Ulugh Beg, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Regiomontanus, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georg von Peuerbach, Galileo Galilei, Shen Kuo, John Tyndall, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Su Song, Luis Walter Alvarez, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Robert FitzRoy, John Arnold, Ernst Abbe, Thomas Harriot, Royal Rife, David Rittenhouse, Johannes Hevelius, Robert Were Fox the Younger, Pedro Nunes, William Oughtred, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, James Gregory, Robert Dunkin, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Sacharias Jansen, Roger Cotes, Evangelista Torricelli, Hans Lippershey, Thomas Earnshaw, John Davis, Daniel Quare, Robert W. Paul, Petrus Apianus, Thomas Cooke, George Adams, Siegfried Marcus, Charles Greeley Abbot, Tobias Mayer, Niccolo Zucchi, Thomas Brown Jordan, Laurent Cassegrain, Edmund Gunter, Edward Samuel Ritchie, Leonard Digges, William Gascoigne, John Brashear, Jesse Ramsden, John Dollond, Christopher Clavius, Amedee Mouchez, Pierre Le Roy, Metius, Charles Frank, Johannes Werner, William Simms, Vincenzo Viviani, Gemma Frisius, Constantijn Huygens, Jr., Thomas Street, John Hadley, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Thomas Mudge, Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach, Peter Dollond, Heinrich Geiler, Louis-Francois-Clement Breguet, Jacob Metius, Jacques Babinet, Peter Cruger, Ferdinand Berthoud, Larcum Kendall, William Gurley, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Edward Nairne, John Henry Dallmeyer, James Short, Edward Troughton, John S. Hougham, John William Norie, Alexander Bryson, Adrien Auzout, Tiberius Cavallo, Georg...