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Transcriber’s Notes
Whewell published the first edition of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences in 1840, as a companion to the 1837 History of the Inductive Sciences. Revised second editions of both works appeared in 1847. The third editions saw a major reshaping of the Philosophy: a two volume History of Scientific Ideas (1858 - the present text, relying upon resources kindly provided by the Internet Archive), Novum Organon Renovatum (1858), and On the Philosophy of Discovery: chapters historical and critical (1860 - already in Project Gutenberg’s collection: #5155).
The present text has combined the two volumes into one continuous text, and has moved the Table of Contents of volume 2 to follow the first volume’s Contents. Footnotes are numbered by Book; in the original, notes were numbered by chapter. Page numbers appear in colour; where a word was hyphenated across pages the number has been placed before the word.
There is one significant emendation to report. For Book IX chapter VI, the Table of Contents lists 20 articles, but the actual text has only 19 numbered paragraphs. The text version leaves this inconsistency untouched; in the htm version, a correction has been made by numbering the paragraph beginning on p. 244 as #9, and renumbering those that follow, thereby matching the descriptions in the Table of Contents. A few other emendations are indicated by dotted red underline, the change appearing on mouse-over.