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CONTENTS
The Principle of Relativity | 305 |
Newton’s Principle | 308 |
Lavoisier’s Principle | 310 |
Mayer’s Principle | 312 |
Chapter IX.—The Future of Mathematical Physies | 314 |
The Principles and Experiment | 314 |
The Role of the Analyst | 314 |
Aberration and Astronomy | 315 |
Electrons and Spectra | 316 |
Conventions preceding Experiment | 317 |
Future Mathematical Physics | 319 |
Part III. The Objective Value of Science | |
Chapter X.—Is Science Artificial? | 321 |
The Philosophy of LeRoy | 321 |
Science, Rule of Action | 323 |
The Crude Fact and the Scientific Fact | 325 |
Nominalism and the Universal Invariant | 333 |
Chapter XI.—Science and Reality | 340 |
Contingence and Determinism | 340 |
Objectivity of Science | 347 |
The Rotation of the Earth | 353 |
Science for Its Own Sake | 354 |
SCIENCE AND METHOD | |
Introduction | 359 |
Book I. Science and the Scientist | |
Chapter I.—The Choice of Facts | 362 |
Chapter II.—The Future of Mathematics | 369 |
Chapter III.—Mathematical Creation | 383 |
Chapter IV.—Chance | 395 |
Book II. Mathematical Reasoning | |
Chapter I.—The Relativity of Space | 413 |
Chapter II.—Mathematical Definitions and Teaching | 430 |
Chapter III.—Mathematics and Logic | 448 |
Chapter IV.—The New Logics | 460 |
Chapter V.—The Latest Efforts of the Logisticians | 472 |
Book III. The New Mechanics | |
Chapter I.—Mechanics and Radium | 486 |
Chapter II.—Mechanics and Optics | 496 |
Chapter III.—The New Mechanics and Astronomy | 515 |
Book IV. Astronomic Science | |
Chapter I.—The Milky Way and the Theory of Gases | 522 |
Chapter I.—French Geodesy | 535 |
General Conclusions | 544 |
Index | 547 |