A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy [electronic resource] / John F.W. Herschel ; with a new foreword by Arthur Fine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cabinet cyclopaedia ; v. 1.Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.Description: xxvii, 372 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 501 19
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .H427 1987eb
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Contents:
pt. 1. Of the general nature and advantages of the study of the physical sciences -- pt. 2. 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 illustrations of their influence as exemplified in the history of its progress -- pt. 3. Of the subdivision of physics into distinct branches, and their mutual relations.
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and J. Taylor, 1830. (The Cabinet cyclopaedia ; v. 1).

Includes index.

pt. 1. Of the general nature and advantages of the study of the physical sciences -- pt. 2. 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 illustrations of their influence as exemplified in the history of its progress -- pt. 3. Of the subdivision of physics into distinct branches, and their mutual relations.

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