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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ADDITIONAL CORRECTION IN VOL. II
- A HISTORY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES
- BOOK VI HISTORY OF MECHANICS, INCLUDING FLUID MECHANICS
- BOOK VII HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY
- BOOK VIII HISTORY OF ACOUSTICS
- Introduction
- CHAPTER I PRELUDE TO THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IN ACOUSTICS
- CHAPTER II PROBLEM OF THE VIBRATIONS OF STRINGS
- CHAPTER III PROBLEM OF THE PROPAGATION OF SOUND
- CHAPTER IV PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS OF THE SAME STRING
- CHAPTER V PROBLEM OF THE SOUNDS OF PIPES
- CHAPTER VI PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT MODES OF VIBRATION OF BODIES IN GENERAL
- BOOK IX HISTORY OF OPTICS, FORMAL AND PHYSICAL
- BOOK X HISTORY OF THERMOTICS AND ATMOLOGY
- ERRATA IN VOL. II
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ADDITIONAL CORRECTION IN VOL. II
- A HISTORY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES
- BOOK VI HISTORY OF MECHANICS, INCLUDING FLUID MECHANICS
- BOOK VII HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY
- BOOK VIII HISTORY OF ACOUSTICS
- Introduction
- CHAPTER I PRELUDE TO THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IN ACOUSTICS
- CHAPTER II PROBLEM OF THE VIBRATIONS OF STRINGS
- CHAPTER III PROBLEM OF THE PROPAGATION OF SOUND
- CHAPTER IV PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT SOUNDS OF THE SAME STRING
- CHAPTER V PROBLEM OF THE SOUNDS OF PIPES
- CHAPTER VI PROBLEM OF DIFFERENT MODES OF VIBRATION OF BODIES IN GENERAL
- BOOK IX HISTORY OF OPTICS, FORMAL AND PHYSICAL
- BOOK X HISTORY OF THERMOTICS AND ATMOLOGY
- ERRATA IN VOL. II
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- History of the Inductive SciencesFrom the Earliest to the Present Times, pp. 293 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1837