BY WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D., MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. THE Chapters now offered to the Reader were formerly published as a portion of _The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their History_: but the nature and subject of these Chapters are more exactly described by the present title, _The History of Scientific Ideas_. For this part of the work is mainly historical, and was, in fact, collected from the body of scientific literature, at the same time that the _History of the Inductive Sciences_ was so collected. The present work contains the history of Science so far as it depends on _Ideas_; the former work contains…
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