CHAP. III. THE ABSTRACT SCIENCES.

Sect. 1. History of Mathematics (from a. c. 640-300)

continued, (from A. c. 300-A. D. 400)

II.

CHAP. IV. ANCIENT PHYSICS.

PAGE

91

97

Sect. 1. Origin and Progress of Astronomical Science

in Greece.

II. History of Astronomy, continued

III. Origin and Progress of Mechanical Science

of Hydrodynamics

IV.

v. Pneumatic Discoveries of the Ancients

VI. Optical Discoveries of the Ancients.

CHAP. V. ANCIENT DIALECTICS.

Sect. 1. On the Origin of Logical Science

145

II. Dialectics of Plato and the Academics

III. Dialectics of Aristotle and the Peripatetics

IV. Dialectics of Zeno and the Stoics

v. General Remarks on the Dialectics of the

Ancients

172

CHAP. VI. ANCIENT METAPHYSICS.

Sect. 1. Origin and Progress of Metaphysical Science

among the Philosophers of Greece

178

II. On the Metaphysical Opinions of Socrates,

Plato, and the Academics

184

III. On the Metaphysical System of Aristotle and

the Peripatetics.

IV. On the Metaphysical Speculations of Zeno

and the Stoics

201

v. Sketch of the Eclectic Sect, and Summary of

their Metaphysical Tenets

Sect. 1. Origin and Progress of Ethical Science among

the Philosophers of Greece and Rome

Sect. II. On the Ethics of Plato and the Academics

III.

IV.

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE DURING THE

MIDDLE AGES.

CHAP. I. INTRODUCTORY.

Sect. I. Causes of the Decay of Literature .

11. Arranged List of the Philosophers of the

Middle Ages.

241

CHAP. II. THE HISTORY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE DURING

THE MIDDLE AGES.

Sect. L. On the Revival of Mathematical Science among

ul. Progress of Experimental Philosophy among

the Arabians .

262

iv. On the European Mathematicians and Astro-

nomers of the Middle Ages

267

v. On the State of Physical Science in Europe

during the Middle Ages

275

CHAP. III. THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL SCIENCE DURING

THE MIDDLE AGES.

Sect. 1. History of Logic (continued from p. 177)

II. Origin and General View of the Scholastic

Philosophy

285

III. Biographical Notices of Scholastic Philosophers

iv. Scholastics of the Middle Period

v. Scholastics of the Third Period

PART IV."

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE FROM THE REVIVAL

OF LETTERS TO THE CLOSE OF THE 17th CENTURY.

CHAP.

I. INTRODUCTORY.

PAGE

Sect. 1. On the Causes of the Revival of Letters . . 320

II. Classification of Intellectual and Scientific

Philosophers of the 16th and 17th Centuries

CHAP. II. THE PROGRESS OF THE ABSTRACT SCIENCES.

Sect. 1. On the Mathematicians of the 16th Century.

326

330

CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONTINued.

I. ASTRONOMY.

Sect. 1. On the Astronomers of the 16th Century

II.

357

III.

IV. On the Astronomical Discoveries of Sir Isaac

Newton

II. DYNAMICS AND MECHANICS.

Sect. 1. On the Progress of Mechanical Science during

the 16th Century

382

390

III. HYDRODYNAMICS AND PNEUMATICS.

Sect. 1. History of Hydrostatics, &c. from 1600—1650, 409

II.

from 1650-1700, 414

IV. OPTICS.

Sect. 1. On the Progress of Optical Science during the

PAGE

438

446

456

IV. On the Optical Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

v. Sketch of the History of Experimental Science

during the 17th Century.

vi. General Remarks on the Philosophy of Sir

Isaac Newton

CHAP. IV. PROGRESS OF THE INTELLECTUAL SCIENCES.

Sect. I. On the Gradual Subversion of Scholastic

II. Sketch of the Literary History of Lord Bacon 479

IV. Summary View of the Philosophy of Lord

496

VI. Sketch of the Life and Writings of Des Cartes

VII. Summary View of the Cartesian Philosophy 501

VIII. Principal Writers on Jurisprudence during

the 16th and 17th Centuries

507

IX. On the Metaphysicians of the 17th Century. 514

x. Sketch of the Literary History of Leibnitz

XI. Summary View of the Philosophy of Leibnitz

XII. Sketch of the Literary History of Locke .

XIII. Summary View of the Metaphysical System

of Locke

.

522

526

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