The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, the Value of Science (Classic Reprint)

Chapter XIIL Electrodynamics 184 Ampere sT heory 184 dosed Currents 186 Action of aC losed Current on a Portion of Current 186 Continuous Botations 188 Mutual Action ofT woO pen Currents 189 Induction 190 Theory of Helmholtz 191 Difficulties Raised by these Theories 193 Maxwell sT heory 193 Rowland sE xperiment 194 The Theory of Lorentz 196 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Translator sI ntroduction 201 Does theS cientist Create Science f201 The Mind Dispelling Optical Illusions 202 Euclid not Necessary 202 Without Hypotheses, noS cience 203 What Outcome! 203 Introduction 205 Past I. The Mathematical Sciences Chapter I. Intuition and Logic in Mathematics 210 Chapter II. The Measure ofT ime 223 Chapter III. The Notion of Space 235 Qualitative Geometry 238 The Physical Continuum of Several Dimensions 240 The Notion of Point 244 The Notion of Displacement 247 Visual Space 252 Chapter IV. Space and its Three Dimensions 256 The Group of Displacements 256 Identity ofT woP oints 259 Tactile Space 264 Identity of theD ifferent Spaces 268 Space andE mpiricism 271 Mind andS pace 273 RO le of theS emicircular Canals 276 Part II. The Physical Sciences Chapter. V. Analysis and Physics 279 Chapter VL Astronomy 289 Chapter VII. -T heH istory of Mathematical Physics 297 The Physics of Principles 299 The Physics of Central Forces 297 The Physics of the Principles 299 Chapter
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