Synopsis
Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History, Vol. 2 of 2
There termed the Organical Sciences, including in this term Physiology and Comparative Anatomy. A peculiar feature in this group of sciences is that they involve the notion of living things. The notion of Life, however vague and obscure it may be in men's minds, is apprehended as a peculiar Idea, not resolvable into any other Ideas, such, for instance, as Matter and Motion. The separation be tween living creatures and inert matter, between organ ised and unorganized beings, is conceived as a positive and insurmountable barrier. The two classes of Objects.
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Book Description
First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by the Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794-1886) rigorously explores the philosophy of the physical sciences. The work was intended as the counterpart to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), which is also reissued in this series.
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