A comprehensive overview of the development of the inductive method, this book traces the history of the natural sciences from ancient Greece to the present day. With chapters on the work of Bacon, Galileo, and Newton, as well as more recent developments in quantum theory and chaos theory, this book is an indispensable resource for students of the natural sciences and the philosophy of science.
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