A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (Paperback)

Part I. Of the General Nature and Advantages of the Study of Physical Sciences: 1. Of man; 2. Of abstract science; 3. Of the nature and objects; 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 Illustrations of their Influence as Exemplified in the History of its Progress: 4. Of experience; 5. Of the analysis of phenomena; 6. Of the state of physical science in general; 7. Of the observation of facts and the collection of instances; 8. Of the classification of natural objects and phenomena; 9. Of the first stage of induction; 10. Of the higher degrees of inductive generalisation; Part III. Of the Subdivision of Physics into Distinct Branches, and their Mutual Relations: 11. Of the phenomena of forces; 12. Of the communication of motion through bodies; 13. Of cosmical phenomena; 14. Of the examination of the material constituents of the world; 15. Of the imponderable forms of matter; 16. Of the causes of the actual rapid advance of the physical sciences.