The art of scientific discovery, or, The general conditions and methods of research in physics and chemistry / by G. Gore.

  • Gore, George, 1826-1909.
Date:
1878
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    have included—1. The history of the art of scientific dis- covery, including all the various discoveries, chronologically arranged.1 2. The various principles of science upon which the art is based.2 3. The practical rules and methods in general use. 4. The special details of the modes of research in particular sciences. But, in the first place, the history of the subject has already been given by very able writers ; in the second, I have been obliged to limit myself to qualitative discovery, because the method of such discovery is the basis of all quantitative and further research ; and, in the third, to include only discovery in the sciences of Physics and Chemistry, because those sciences afford the most simple examples of experimental investigation, and may be accepted as simple types of the more complex and concrete ones. The treatise, therefore, embraces but a small portion of a great subject; it consists simply of a series of chapters, all of them written more or less with the practical view of aiding students in pursuing original scientific inquiry. For the history and philosophy of the subject I must refer the reader to the several books already named; and for special technical details of working he must consult books on the several sciences. 1 Consult Baden Powell’s Historical View of the Progress of the Sciences; Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences', Draper’s In- tellectual Development of Europe; Thomson’s Histories of Chemistry and of the Royal Society; Buckley’s Short History of the Natural Sciences; &c. 2 Consult Whewell’s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences; Her- schel’s Discourse on Natwral Philosophy ; Jevons’s Principles, of Science-, Thomson’s Laws of Thought; Bain On the Senses and the Intellect; and the various works on logic and the different sciences.