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Excerpt from Essays From the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews: With Addresses and Other PiecesI will tell you, Gentlemen, in the first place, why I think this occasion so important. We are assembled here in performance of our part of a process which is going on at present more slowly than might be wished, but which is at length fairly entered upon, and must advance with more rapidity as example sanctions and persuasion urges it, and will, I tru...

Excerpt from Outlines of Astronomy, Vol. 1The method, therefore, we propose to follow is neither strictly the analytic nor the synthetic, but rather such a combination of both, with a leaning to the latter, as may best suit with a didactic composition. Our object is not to convince or refute Opponents, nor to inquire, under the semblance of an assumed ignorance, for prin ciples of which we are all the time in full possession but simply to teac...

Excerpt from A General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars: Arranged in Order of Right Ascension and Reduced to the Common Epoch 1860-0In presenting to the Royal Society this Catalogue, it~will be accompanied by the following series Of records and documents which it may become desirable hereafter to refer to in elucidation of any point which may arise respecting the history or reduction of such of the objects as occur in my Father's clas...

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Excerpt from Familiar Lectures on Scientific SubjectsNow, to make this clear, I must go a little out of my way and say something about the first principles of geology. Geology does not pretend to go back to the creation of the world, or concern itself about its primitive state, but it does concern itself with the changes it sees going on in it now, and with the evi dence of a long series of such changes it can produce in the most unmistakable ...

Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ...

Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ...

Excerpt from A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and Travellers in GeneralEvidence of slow sinking of the land to be sought for on reefs and atolls, 274 - Valne of the description of a thick and widely-extended mass of coral rock, 275 Concluding instructions, 275.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

Excerpt from Meteorology: From the Encyclopædia Britannica Where anything beyond mere numerical cor rections and slight alteration of expressions has been introduced, the interpolations have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to di...

Excerpt from Review: Outlines of AstronomyThe introduction is reprinted with but slight change from the former work. It is a beautiful chapter, clear and con cise, informing beginners in astronomy what they have a right to expect from an elementary work on this science.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

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Originally published in 1830, this book can be called the first modern work in the philosophy of science, covering an extraordinary range of philosophical, methodological, and scientific subjects. "Herschel's book . . . brilliantly analyzes both the history and nature of science."--Keith Stewart Thomson, "American Scientist