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.
CHAP. I.
Of Experience as the Source of our Knowledge.--Of the
Dismissal of Prejudices.--Of the Evidence of our Senses. 75
CHAP. II.
Of the Analysis of Phenomena. 85
CHAP. III.
Of the State of Physical Science in General, previous to the
Age of Galileo and Bacon. 104
CHAP. IV.
Of the Observation of Facts and the Collection of Instances. 118
CHAP. V.
Of the Classification of Natural Objects and Phenomena, and of
Nomenclature. 135
CHAP. VI.
Of the First Stage of Induction.--The Discovery of Proximate
Causes, and Laws of the lowest Degree of Generality, and
their Verification. 144
CHAP. VII.
Of the higher Degrees of Inductive Generalization, and of the
Formation and Verification of Theories. 190