Excerpt from Britain's Heritage of Science His book does not pretend to establish any thesis. Incidentally it may point a moral which different readers will interpret in different ways. Our main purpose was to give a plain account of Britain's great heritage of science; an heritage that - handed down through several centuries of distinguished achieve ments - will, if the Signs speak true, be passed on to the coming age with untarnished brilliancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.