Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An Introduction to Dynamics
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An Introduction to Dynamics; Containing the Laws of Motion and the First Three Sections of the Principia
Author: William WhewellPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230366067
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMICS. Section I. DEFINITIONS, PRINCIPLES. AND LEMMAS. Subsection I. Geometrical Definitions, Postulates, and Lemmas. newton. Principia. Book I. Section /. In the following reasonings, certain hypotheses are assumed, (as that two points are taken in a curve, near to each other, or that a finite magnitude is divided into many small parts, ) and certain constructions are made upon these hypotheses. The hypothesis is then extended indefinitely, the spaces and numbers which it involves being supposed to become greater or smaller than any given magnitudes; (for instance the two points in the curve are supposed to approach indefinitely near to each other; or the parts of the finite magnitude are supposed to become indefinitely numerous and indefinitely small.) The properties of the construction above mentioned, will, in consequence of this extension of the hypothesis, approach constantly to certain properties, which are the properties in the ultimate form of the hypothesis. The values of any of the magnitudes so deduced from a construction are called their ultimate or limiting values; and ratios so deduced are called ultimate or limiting ratios. These are sometimes also called prime ratios, the hypothesis being supposed to be extended from its ultimate form, instead of to it. A The quantities of which we have to consider the ratios, may vanish in the ultimate form of the hypothesis. Their ratio is then sometimes called their vanishing ratio. Objection 1. There are no ultimate values or ratios: for by an indefinite extension of the hypothesis we cannot arrive at definite properties. Answer. By an indefinite extension of the hypothesis we do approach, in general, to definite properties, as will be seen in succeeding..
An Introduction To Dynamics: Containing The Laws Of Motion And The First Three Sections Of The Principia
Author: William WhewellPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018179766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
William Whewell. ... An account of his Writings, with selections from his literary and scientific Correspondence. By I. Todhunter
Author: William WhewellWilliam Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Author: Isaac TodhunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Author: William WhewellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038530
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This 1876 biography of one of Trinity College's most distinguished masters reflects a typically nineteenth-century fusion of religion and science.
An Analytical System of Conic Sections
Author: Henry Parr HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conic sections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Creatively Undecided
Author: Menachem FischPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651465X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention to ambiguity and indecision in science, Menachem Fisch, in Creatively Undecided, offers a new way to look at how scientific understandings change. Following Kuhn, Fisch argues that scientific practice depends on the framework in which it is conducted, but he also shows that those frameworks can be understood as the possible outcomes of the rational deliberation that Popper viewed as central to theory change. How can a scientist subject her standards to rational appraisal if that very act requires the use of those standards? The way out, Fisch argues, is by looking at the incentives scientists have to create alternative frameworks in the first place. Fisch argues that while science can only be transformed from within, by people who have standing in the field, criticism from the outside is essential. We may not be able to be sufficiently self-critical on our own, but trusted criticism from outside, even if resisted, can begin to change our perspective—at which point transformative self-criticism becomes a real option.
Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library of South Australia
Author: Parliamentary Library of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Brings forward the previous catalogue to the end of July, 1871."--Pref.