History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times

William Whewell

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William Whewell

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2011
Print publication year:: 2010
First published in:: 1837
Online ISBN:: 9780511734342
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511734342

Subjects:: History of Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy

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A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794–1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 2 focuses on the rise and development of modern mechanics in the seventeenth century. Whewell shows how Galileo's laws of motion exemplify a paradigmatic shift from 'formal' to 'physical' sciences - a new approach concerned with explaining causes rather than merely observing phenomena. It also discusses the implications for physical astronomy of Newton's discoveries.

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History of the Inductive Sciences

From the Earliest to the Present Times

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-xi

ADDITIONAL CORRECTION IN VOL. II
pp xii-xii

A HISTORY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES
pp 1-2

BOOK VI - HISTORY OF MECHANICS, INCLUDING FLUID MECHANICS
pp 3-4

Introduction
pp 5-6

CHAPTER I - PRELUDE TO THE EPOCH OF GALILEO
pp 7-21

CHAPTER II - INDUCTIVE EPOCH OF GALILEO. DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF MOTION IN SIMPLE CASES
pp 22-51

CHAPTER III - SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF GALILEO. PERIOD OF VERIFICATION AND DEDUCTION
pp 52-60

CHAPTER IV - DISCOVERY OF THE MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES OF FLUIDS
pp 61-71

CHAPTER V - GENERALISATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS
pp 72-90

CHAPTER VI - SEQUEL OF THE GENERALISATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS. PERIOD OF MATHEMATICAL DEDUCTION. ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
pp 91-124

BOOK VII - HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY
pp 125-126

CHAPTER I - PRELUDE TO THE INDUCTIVE EPOCH OF NEWTON
pp 127-151

CHAPTER II - THE INDUCTIVE EPOCH OF NEWTON. DISCOVERY OF THE UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION OF MATTER, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE INVERSE SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE
pp 152-187

CHAPTER III - SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF NEWTON. RECEPTION OF THE NEWTONIAN THEORY
pp 188-205

CHAPTER IV - SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF NEWTON, CONTINUED. VERIFICATION AND COMPLETION OF THE NEWTONIAN THEORY
pp 206-253

CHAPTER V - DISCOVERIES ADDED TO THE NEWTONIAN THEORY
pp 254-265

CHAPTER VI - THE INSTRUMENTS AND AIDS OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NEWTONIAN PERIOD
pp 266-290

BOOK VIII - HISTORY OF ACOUSTICS
pp 291-292

Introduction
pp 293-294

CHAPTER I - PRELUDE TO THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IN ACOUSTICS
pp 295-301

CHAPTER II - PROBLEM OF THE VIBRATIONS OF STRINGS
pp 302-309

CHAPTER III - PROBLEM OF THE PROPAGATION OF SOUND
pp 310-316

CHAPTER IV - PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS OF THE SAME STRING
pp 317-320

CHAPTER V - PROBLEM OF THE SOUNDS OF PIPES
pp 321-324

CHAPTER VI - PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT MODES OF VIBRATION OF BODIES IN GENERAL
pp 325-336

BOOK IX - HISTORY OF OPTICS, FORMAL AND PHYSICAL
pp 337-338

Introduction
pp 339-341

CHAPTER I - PRIMARY INDUCTION OF OPTICS. RAYS OF LIGHT AND LAWS OF REFLECTION
pp 342-343

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