OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE, FROM THE Earliest Authentic Records ΤΟ THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY THOMAS MORELL, AUTHOR OF "STUDIES IN HISTORY," &c. &c. STANFORD LIRAMY LONDON: PRINTED FOR B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. St PREFACE. THE principal contents of this elementary volume were first collected solely with a view to private academical instruction, and intended to be accom→ panied with additional oral information. This circumstance is stated to account for the technical and didactic form in which they appear. Had it been the primary design of the Author to submit his work to the public eye, he would probably have adopted a less scholastic arrangement of his subjects, and indulged in greater freedom of composition; but the information would, in that case, have been less condensed, the method less perspicuous, and the volume itself, though more generally attractive, of less intrinsic value. There are several classes of persons to whom the Author ventures to hope the present Work may |