History of scientific ideas
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Chapters (115)
- HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC IDEAS.
- PREFACE TO THIS EDITION.
- CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
- CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
- INTRODUCTION.
- BOOK I.
- CHAPTER I. Of the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy.
- Sect. 1.—Thoughts and Things.
- Sect. 2.—Necessary and Experiential Truths.
- Sect. 3.—Deduction and Induction.
- Sect. 4.—Theories and Facts.
- Sect. 5.—Ideas and Sensations.
- Sect. 6.—Reflexion and Sensation.
- Sect. 7.—Subjective and Objective.
- Sect. 8.—Matter and Form.
- Sect. 9.—Man the Interpreter of Nature.
- Sect. 10.—The Fundamental Antithesis inseparable.
- Sect. 11.—Successive Generalization.
- CHAPTER II. Of Technical Terms.
- CHAPTER III. Of Necessary Truths.
- CHAPTER IV. Of Experience.
- CHAPTER V. Of the Grounds of Necessary Truths.
- CHAPTER VI. The Fundamental Ideas are not Derived from Experience.
- CHAPTER VII. Of the Philosophy of the Sciences.
- BOOK II.
- CHAPTER I. Of the Pure Sciences.
- CHAPTER II. Of the Idea of Space.
- CHAPTER III. Of some Peculiarities of the Idea of Space.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the Definitions and Axioms which relate to Space.
- CHAPTER V. Of some Objections which have been made to the Doctrines stated in the previous Chapter.3
- CHAPTER VI. Of the Perception of Space.
- CHAPTER VII. Of the Idea of Time.
- CHAPTER VIII. Of some Peculiarities of the Idea of Time.
- CHAPTER IX. Of the Axioms which relate to Number.
- CHAPTER X. Of the Perception of Time and Number.
- NOTE TO CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI. Of Mathematical Reasoning.
- CHAPTER XII. Of the Foundations of the Higher Mathematics.
- CHAPTER XIII. The Doctrine of Motion.
- CHAPTER XIV. Of the Application of Mathematics to the Inductive Sciences.
- BOOK III.
- CHAPTER I. Of the Mechanical Sciences.
- CHAPTER II. Of the Idea of Cause.
- CHAPTER III. Modern Opinions respecting the Idea of Cause.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the Axioms which relate to the Idea of Cause.
- CHAPTER V. Of the Origin of our Conceptions of Force and Matter.
- CHAPTER VI. Of the Establishment of the Principles of Statics.
- CHAPTER VII. Of the Establishment of the Principles of Dynamics.
- CHAPTER VIII. Of the Paradox of Universal Propositions obtained from Experience.
- CHAPTER IX. Of the Establishment of the Law of Universal Gravitation.
- CHAPTER X. Of the general Diffusion of clear Mechanical Ideas.
- BOOK IV.
- CHAPTER I. Of the Idea of a Medium as commonly employed.
- CHAPTER II. On Peculiarities in the Perceptions of the Different Senses.
- Sect. I.—Prerogatives of Sight.
- Sect. II.—Prerogatives of Hearing.
- Sect. III.—The Paradoxes of Vision.
- Sect. IV.—The Perception of Visible Figure.
- CHAPTER III. Successive Attempts at the Scientific Application of the Idea of a Medium.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the Measure of Secondary Qualities.
- Sect. I.—Scales of Qualities in general.
- Sect. II.—The Musical Scale.
- Sect. III.—Scales of Colour.
- Sect. IV.—Scales of Light.
- Sect. V.—Scales of Heat.
- Sect. VI.—Scales of other Qualities.
- BOOK V.
- BOOK V.
- CHAPTER I. Attempts at the Scientific Application of the Idea of Polarity.
- CHAPTER II. Of the Connexion of Polarities.
- BOOK VI.
- CHAPTER I. Attempts to conceive Elementary Composition.
- CHAPTER II. Establishment and Development of the Idea of Chemical Affinity.
- CHAPTER III. Of the Idea of Substance.
- NOTE TO CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV. Application of the Idea of Substance in Chemistry.
- CHAPTER V. The Atomic Theory.
- BOOK VII.
- CHAPTER I. Explication of the Idea of Symmetry.
- CHAPTER II. Application of the Idea of Symmetry to Crystals.
- CHAPTER III. Speculations founded upon the Symmetry of Crystals.
- BOOK VIII.
- CHAPTER I. The Idea of Likeness as Governing the Use of Common Names.
- CHAPTER II. The Methods of Natural History, as regulated by the Idea of Likeness.
- Sect. I.—Natural History in general.
- Sect. II.—Terminology.5
- Sect. III. The Plan of the System.
- Sect. IV.—Modes of framing Natural Systems.
- Sect. V.—Gradation of Groups.
- Sect. VI.—Nomenclature.
- Sect. VII.—Diagnosis.
- CHAPTER III. Application of the Natural History Method to Mineralogy.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the Idea of Natural Affinity.
- BOOK IX.
- CHAPTER I. Analogy of Biology With Other Sciences.
- CHAPTER II. Successive Biological Hypotheses.
- Sect. I.—The Mystical School.
- Sect. II.—The Iatrochemical School.
- Sect. III.—The Iatromathematical School.
- Sect. IV.—The Vital-Fluid School.
- Sect. V.—The Psychical School.
- CHAPTER III. Attempts to Analyse the Idea of Life.
- CHAPTER IV. Attempts to form Ideas of separate Vital Forces, and first of Assimilation and Secretion.
- Sect. I.—Course of Biological Research.
- Sect. II.—Attempts to form a distinct Conception of Assimilation and Secretion.
- Sect. III.—Attempts to conceive the forces of Assimilation and Secretion.
- Sect. IV.—Attempts to conceive the Process of Generation.
- CHAPTER V. Attempts to form Ideas of separate Vital Forces, continued.—Voluntary Motion.
- CHAPTER VI. Of the Idea of Final Causes.
- BOOK X.
- CHAPTER I. Of Palætiological Sciences in General.
- CHAPTER II. Of the Three Members of a Palætiological Science.
- CHAPTER III. Of the Doctrine of Catastrophes and the Doctrine of Uniformity.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the Relation of Tradition to Palætiology.
- CHAPTER V. Of the Conception of a First Cause.
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