Category: Science - Physics
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. 18
(232.) Natural History may be considered in two very different lights: either, 1st, as a collection of facts and objects presented by nature, from the examination, analysis, and...
7. CHAPTER I.(66.) Into abstract science, as we have before observed, the notion of cause does not enter. The truths it is conversant with are _necessary_ ones, and exist independent of caus...
5. CHAPTER I.(1.) The situation of man on the globe he inhabits, and over which he has obtained the control, is in many respects exceedingly remarkable. Compared with its other denizens, he...
3. PART III.“In primis, hominis est propria VERI inquisitio atque investigatio. Itaque cum sumus negotiis necessariis, curisque vacui, tum avemus aliquid videre, audire, ac dicere, cognitio...
2. PART II.OF THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH PHYSICAL SCIENCE RELIES FOR ITS SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, AND THE RULES BY WHICH A SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF NATURE SHOULD BE CONDUCTED, WITH ILLUSTRATI...
1. PART I.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...
6. PART II.OF THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH PHYSICAL SCIENCE RELIES FOR ITS SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, AND THE RULES BY WHICH A SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF NATURE SHOULD BE CONDUCTED, WITH ILLUSTRATI...
4. PART I.8. PART III.