T. J. McCormack.
La Salle, Ill., May, 1898.
[TABLE OF CONTENTS.]
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- [The Forms of Liquids] 1
- [The Fibres of Corti] 17
- [On the Causes of Harmony] 32
- [The Velocity of Light] 48
- [Why Has Man Two Eyes?] 66
- [On Symmetry] 89
- [On the Fundamental Concepts of Electrostatics] 107
- [On the Principle of the Conservation of Energy] 137
- [On the Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry] 186
- [On Transformation and Adaptation in Scientific Thought] 214
- [On the Principle of Comparison in Physics] 236
- [On the Part Played by Accident in Invention and Discovery] 259
- [On Sensations of Orientation] 282
- [On Some Phenomena Attending the Flight of Projectiles] 309
- [On Instruction in the Classics and the Mathematico-Physical Sciences] 338
- [Appendixes.]
- [Index] 393
[THE FORMS OF LIQUIDS.]
What thinkest thou, dear Euthyphron, that the holy is, and the just, and the good? Is the holy holy because the gods love it, or are the gods holy because they love the holy? By such easy questions did the wise Socrates make the market-place of Athens unsafe and relieve presumptuous young statesmen of the burden of imaginary knowledge, by showing them how confused, unclear, and self-contradictory their ideas were.