Abstract
THE title of this book and its subtitle, “Researches into the Domain of the Early Sciences, especially from the Period of the Revival of Scholasticism, with Biographical and other Accounts of the most Distinguished Natural Philosophers throughout the Middle Ages,” well describe the contents. Every scientific man is interested in the early days of science, and most of them know a few traditions about its history. It will be a boon to them to find out how far these traditions are justified by the facts, and this book of Dr. Mottelay's, whose death we had recently to deplore, will be of the greatest assistance to them. The volume gives very complete references to all the discoverers of the laws of electricity and magnetism and the writers on these subjects. The author starts from the dawn of authentic Chinese history (2637 B.C.) and ends with Christmas day 1821 when Faraday converted electrical into mechanical energy by causing a wire carrying a current to rotate in a magnetic field.
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