The principles of science

by William Stanley Jevons

[178] See Wills on Circumstantial Evidence, p. 148.

[179] Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. iv. p. 290, quoted by Lardner, Edinburgh Review, July 1834, p. 278.

[180] Baily, British Association Catalogue of Stars, pp. 7, 23.

[181] Outlines of Astronomy, 4th ed. sect. 781, p. 522. Results of Observations at the Cape of Good Hope, &c., p. 37.

[182] See De Morgan, Study of Mathematics, in U.K.S. Library, p. 81.

[183] Loomis, On the Aurora Borealis. Smithsonian Transactions, quoting Parry’s Third Voyage, p. 61.

[184] Watts’ Dictionary of Chemistry, vol. ii. p. 790.

[185] Philosophical Transactions, (1856) vol. 146, Part i. p. 297.

[186] Airy, On Tides and Waves, Encyclopædia Metropolitana, p. 345. Scott Russell, British Association Report, 1837, p. 432.

[187] Hugenii Cosmotheoros, pp. 117, 118. Laplace’s Système, translated, vol. i. p. 67.