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A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy.
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J. F. W. Herschel
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1831
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Carey and Lea
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pp. 1
Of man regarded as a creature of instinct, of reason, and speculation.—General influence of scientific pursuits on the mind.
pp. 13
Of abstract science as a preparation for the study of physics.—A profound acquaintance with it not indispensable for a clear understanding of physical laws.—How a conviction of their truth may be obtained without it.—Instances.—Further division of the subject.
pp. 26
Of the nature and objects, immediate and collateral, of physical science, as regarded in itself, and in its application to the practical purposes of life, and its influence on the well-being and progress of society.
pp. 57
Of experience as the source of our knowledge.—Of the dismissal of prejudices.—Of the evidence of our senses.
pp. 64
Of the analysis of phenomena.
pp. 78
Of the state of physical science in general, previous to the age of Galileo and Bacon.
pp. 88
Of the observation of facts and the collection of instances.
pp. 101
Of the classification of natural objects and phenomena, and of nomenclature.
pp. 107
Of the first stage of induction.—The discovery of proximate causes, and laws of the lowest degree of generality, and their verification.
pp. 142
Of the higher degrees of inductive generalization, and of the formation and verification of theories.
pp. 166
Of the phenomena of force, and of the constitution of natural bodies.
pp. 185
Of the communication of motion through bodies.—Of sound and light.
pp. 198
Of cosmical phenomena.
pp. 217
Of the examination of the material constituents of the world.
pp. 232
Of the imponderable forms of matter.
pp. 260
Of the causes of the actual rapid advance of the physical sciences compared with their progress at an earlier period.
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