History of Scientific Ideas
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History of Scientific Ideas by William Whewell presents chapters described in the preface as mainly historical and collected from the body of scientific literature. The treatment of geometry considers lines, curves, surfaces, and solid figures, with their properties depending on the relations of their boundaries. The discussion distinguishes a line's length, a surface's length and breadth, and solid space's length, breadth, and depth.
The account of knowledge proposes examining ideas and their historical introduction into the sciences to which they especially belong. The text considers how increasing temperature below the earth's surface at first seems to indicate central heat, which suggests an earlier incandescent state that advocates of uniformity must explain away.
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- William Whewell
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- 617
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