The principles of science

by William Stanley Jevons

[398] System of Logic, bk. iii. chap. viii § 6.

[399] Laplace, System of the World, translated by Harte, vol. ii. p. 366.

[400] Chemical Reports and Memoirs, Cavendish Society, p. 294.

[401] Jamin, Cours de Physique, vol. ii. p. 38.

[402] On Tides and Waves, Encyclopædia Metropolitana, p. 366*.

[403] Encyclopædia Britannica, art. Meteorology. Reprint, §§ 152–156.

[404] Lagrange, Leçons sur le Calcul des Fonctions, 1806, p. 4.

[405] Haughton, Principles of Animal Mechanics, 1873, pp. 444–450. Jevons, Nature, 30th of June, 1870, vol. ii. p. 158. See also the experiments of Professor Nipher, of Washington University, St. Louis, in American Journal of Science, vol. ix. p. 130, vol. x. p. 1; Nature, vol. xi. pp. 256, 276.

[406] Jamin, Cours de Physique, vol. ii. p. 50.

[407] Philosophical Transactions, 1826, p. 544.