Aspects of science

The papers which make up this volume have been selected because, although they deal with different aspects of various scientific ideas, yet they do illustrate, more or less, one...

We have treated this point at some length because Dr. Campbell, in a recent valuable book on the Elements of Physics, insists that the physics he is talking about is that of phy...

It is doubtless worth noting in this connection that Maxwell, unlike most of the scientific men of his time, was genuinely interested in metaphysical speculation. This was not m...

If we contrast ancient with modern scientific theories we find that the chief distinguishing characteristic of the former is that they employ principles drawn from other branche...

For those people also who, without being students, take an interest in science, the reading of original memoirs may be recommended. Much of the science they learn in this way wi...

Another testimonial to the importance of such qualities in astronomical discovery is furnished by the career of Heinrich Schwabe, of Dessau. In the hope of escaping his fate as...

The general disbelief in scientific circles that meteorites really came from outer space occurs to him. This disbelief was due, he points out, to the impossibility of producing...

Is the scientific man really a distinct kind of man, or is it merely that science is a distinct occupation? To answer the question we must make the elementary distinction betwee...

It is not an unfair judgment, we think, that decides, on a survey of contemporary intellectual activities, to grant science the first place. Whether we consider the quality of t...

Among such writers on music Schopenhauer is notorious; and it is worth while to dwell a little on his speculations, fantastic as they may seem, since they contain an element com...

The result of such researches as have been made may be said, briefly, to show that human testimony has much less value than is normally assigned to it and, in particular, much l...