A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

Author/Contributor(s):	Herschel, John Frederick William
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	05/15/1987
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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