Tag: Empiricism

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  • History of the Inductive Sciences

    - Whewell, W. History of the Inductive Sciences. 3 vols. London: J. Parker, 1837.
    Excerpt: It is my purpose to write the history of some of the most important of the physical sciences, from the earliest to the most recent periods. I shall thus have to trace some of the most remarkable branches of human knowledge,from their first germ to… More