SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
A SERIES OF VOLUMES FOR THE PROMOTION OF
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
Edited by J. McKEEN CATTELL
VOLUME I—THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
UNDER THE SAME EDITORSHIP
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. A series of volumes for the promotion of scientific research and educational progress.
Volume I. The Foundations of Science. By H. Poincaré. Containing the authorised English translation by George Bruce Halsted of "Science and Hypothesis," "The Value of Science," and "Science and Method."
Volume II. Medical Research and Education. By Richard Mills Pearce, William H. Welch, W. H. Howell, Franklin P. Mall, Lewellys F. Barker, Charles S. Minot, W. B. Cannon, W. T. Councilman Theobald Smith, G. N. Stewart, C. M. Jackson, E. P. Lyon, James B. Herrick, John M. Dodson, C. R. Bardeen, W. Ophuls, S. J. Meltzer, James Ewing, W. W. Keen, Henry H. Donaldson, Christian A. Herter, and Henry P. Bowditch.
Volume III. University Control. By J. McKeen Cattell and other authors.
AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE. A Biographical Directory.
SCIENCE. A weekly journal devoted to the advancement of science. The official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. A monthly magazine devoted to the diffusion of science.
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. A monthly journal devoted to the biological sciences, with special reference to the factors of evolution.
THE SCIENCE PRESS
NEW YORK GARRISON, N. Y.
THE FOUNDATIONS
OF SCIENCE
SCIENCE AND HYPOTHESIS
THE VALUE OF SCIENCE
SCIENCE AND METHOD
BY
H. POINCARÉ
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY
GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED
WITH A SPECIAL PREFACE BY POINCARÉ, AND AN INTRODUCTION
BY JOSIAH ROYCE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE SCIENCE PRESS
NEW YORK AND GARRISON, N. Y.
1913
Copyright, 1913
BY The Science Press
PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
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