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The Foundations of Science

by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)

138 chapters, about 190,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. HENRI POINCARÉ 700 words
2. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION 1,800 words
3. I 1,200 words
4. II 1,000 words
5. III 1,300 words
6. IV 1,800 words
7. V 800 words
8. INTRODUCTION 1,000 words
9. I 500 words
10. 2 + 2 = 4 Q.E.D. 200 words
11. III 1,000 words
12. IV 200 words
13. V 600 words
14. VI 500 words
15. VII 800 words
16. MATHEMATICAL MAGNITUDE AND EXPERIENCE 1,100 words
17. _A_ =_B_, _B_ = _C_, _A_ < _C_, 2,600 words
18. THE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES 3,100 words
19. SPACE AND GEOMETRY 5,000 words
20. EXPERIENCE AND GEOMETRY 3,000 words
21. SUPPLEMENT 1,000 words
22. THE CLASSIC MECHANICS 5,300 words
23. RELATIVE MOTION AND ABSOLUTE MOTION 2,800 words
24. ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMICS 2,500 words
25. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ON PART THIRD 800 words
26. HYPOTHESES IN PHYSICS 4,900 words
27. THE THEORIES OF MODERN PHYSICS 5,500 words
28. THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES 7,200 words
29. OPTICS AND ELECTRICITY 3,300 words
30. ELECTRODYNAMICS 4,500 words
31. TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION 800 words
32. INTRODUCTION 1,700 words
33. I 1,000 words
34. II 700 words
35. III 600 words
36. IV 500 words
37. V 800 words
38. VI 1,000 words
39. I 300 words
40. II 200 words
41. III 400 words
42. IV 400 words
43. V 400 words
44. VI 200 words
45. VII 400 words
46. IX 300 words
47. X 400 words
48. XI 300 words
49. XII 700 words
50. XIII 200 words
51. THE NOTION OF SPACE 8,000 words
52. SPACE AND ITS THREE DIMENSIONS 9,000 words
53. I 500 words
54. II 1,300 words
55. III 1,000 words
56. IV 600 words
57. ASTRONOMY 2,800 words
58. THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 2,000 words
59. THE PRESENT CRISIS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 4,100 words
60. THE FUTURE OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 2,300 words
61. IS SCIENCE ARTIFICIAL? 7,400 words
62. SCIENCE AND REALITY 5,900 words
63. INTRODUCTION 900 words
64. THE CHOICE OF FACTS 2,600 words
65. THE FUTURE OF MATHEMATICS 4,000 words
66. ARITHMETIC 400 words
67. GEOMETRY 600 words
68. CANTORISM 200 words
69. THE INVESTIGATION OF THE POSTULATES 100 words
70. MATHEMATICAL CREATION 4,600 words
71. I 800 words
72. II 900 words
73. III 400 words
74. IV 800 words
75. V 400 words
76. VI 1,000 words
77. VII 800 words
78. VIII 700 words
79. IX 500 words
80. X 500 words
81. I 2,000 words
82. II 1,200 words
83. III 1,300 words
84. IV 500 words
85. V 500 words
86. VI 500 words
87. MATHEMATICAL DEFINITIONS AND TEACHING 4,300 words
88. ARITHMETIC 500 words
89. GEOMETRY 600 words
90. MECHANICS 1,200 words
91. INTRODUCTION 700 words
92. I 200 words
93. II 700 words
94. III 200 words
95. DEFINITIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS 700 words
96. V 400 words
97. VI 200 words
98. PASIGRAPHY 800 words
99. VIII 200 words
100. I 300 words
101. II 200 words
102. III 300 words
103. IV 100 words
104. V 400 words
105. VI 500 words
106. VII 300 words
107. VIII 200 words
108. X 300 words
109. XI 900 words
110. XII 600 words
111. II 700 words
112. III 700 words
113. IV 500 words
114. V 200 words
115. VI 600 words
116. VII 200 words
117. VIII 400 words
118. X 200 words
119. XI 800 words
120. I 1,100 words
121. II 1,000 words
122. III 300 words
123. IV 600 words
124. V 400 words
125. I 800 words
126. II 1,400 words
127. III 1,100 words
128. IV 600 words
129. V 200 words
130. VI 700 words
131. VII 500 words
132. I 1,100 words
133. II 800 words
134. III 1,800 words
135. IV 300 words
136. THE MILKY WAY AND THE THEORY OF GASES 4,600 words
137. FRENCH GEODESY 3,200 words
138. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 800 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Arithmetic
• Astronomy
• Calculus
• Celestial mechanics
• Color
• Consequent
• Conservation of energy
• Definition
• Differential equation
• Electron
• Elegance
• Ellipse
• Energy
• Euclidean geometry
• Experiment
• Inertia
• Integer
• Intuition
• Mass
• Mechanics
• Molecule
• Motion
• Objectivity (science)
• Parameter
• Phosphorus (morning star)
• Physicist
• Professor
• Proportionality (mathematics)
• Science
• Solar System

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