VIII. Acoustics. IX. Optics, formal and physical. X. Thermotics and atmology. XI. Electricity. XII. Magnetism. XIII. Galvanism, or Voltaic electricity. XIV. Chemistry. XV. Mineralogy. XVI. Systematic botany and zoology. XVII. Physiology and comparative anatomy. XVIII. Geology. Additions to the 3d ed

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PRIMARY INDUCTION OF OPTICS RAYS	53

DISCOVERY OF ACHROMATISM	66

DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF POLARIZATION 772	72

ATTEMPTS TO DISCOVER THE LAWS	78

CHAPTER XPRELUDE TO THE EPOCH OF YOUNG	85

CHAPTER XIEPOCH OF YOUNG AND FRESNEL	92

Explanation of Double Refraction by the Undulatory Theory	98

Explanation of Dipolarization by the Undulatory Theory	105

Natural History System of Mohs	344

Return to Mixed Systems with Improvements	351

Introduction	357

UNSYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE OF PLANTS	361

FORMATION OF A SYSTEM OF ARRANGEMENT	369

Stationary Interval	378

THE REFORM OF LINNÆUS	387

Reception and Diffusion of the Linnæan Reform	400

CONFIRMATION	118

Newtons Rings by Polarized Light	124

BOOK X	135

Sect 2	142

Correction of Newtons Law of Cooling	149

Expansion by Heat The Law of Dalton and GayLussac	157

Other Laws of Phenomena with respect to Radiation	158

THE RELATION OF VAPOR AND	163

Daltons Doctrine of Evaporation	170

Consequences of the Doctrine of Evaporation Explanation	176

139	178

Atmological Theories	184

Introduction	191

Question of One or Two Fluids	210

Theory of Magnetic Action	220

Conclusion	232

Ampères Theory	247

IMPROVEMENT OF THE NOTION OF CHEMICAL	261

DOCTRINE OF ACIDIFICATION AND COMBUS	267

Prelude to the Theory Its Publication	275

Nomenclature of the Oxygen Theory	281

Prelude to the Atomic Theory and its Publication by Dalton	285

Promulgation of the Electrochemical Theory by Davy	291

143	301

Consequences of Faradays Discoveries	302

INTRODUCTION	313

EPOCH OF ROME DE LISLE AND HAUY	320

Diffusion of the Distinction of Systems	330

Dimorphism	336

THE PROGRESS OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY	412

THE PROGRESS OF ICHTHYOLOGY	419

Separation of the Artificial and Natural Methods in Ichthyology	426

ORGANICAL SCIENCES	433

Knowledge of Galen and his Predecessors	438

DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD	444

DISCOVERY OF THE MOTION OF THE CHYLE	452

The Consequent Speculations Hypotheses of Generation	459

INTRODUCTION OF THE PRINCIPLE of Devel	468

PROGRESS OF ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY	475

Introduction	499

Ancient Notices of Geological Facts	505

FORMATION OF SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIVE	511

147	515

SEQUEL TO THE FORMATION OF SYSTEMATIC	523

General Geological Phenomena	537

Aqueous Causes of Change	545

Problems respecting Elevations and Crystalline Forces	556

The Hypothesis of the Regular Creation and Extinction of Species	573

PROGRESS OF PHYSICAL GEOLOGY	579

THE TWO ANTAGONIST DOCTRINES	586

ACOUSTICS	599

THERMOTICS ATMOLOGY	606

MAGNETISM	613

Diamagnetic Polarity	620

MINERALOGY	627

VEGETABLE MORPHOLOGY	636

Final Causes	642

Title	VIII. Acoustics. IX. Optics, formal and physical. X. Thermotics and atmology. XI. Electricity. XII. Magnetism. XIII. Galvanism, or Voltaic electricity. XIV. Chemistry. XV. Mineralogy. XVI. Systematic botany and zoology. XVII. Physiology and comparative anatomy. XVIII. Geology. Additions to the 3d ed Volume 2 of History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, William Whewell
Author	William Whewell
Edition	3
Publisher	D. Appleton, 1858
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	Jul 17, 2007

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