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An enquiry concerning the principles of natural knowledge
Alfred North Whitehead
Physics rests on foundations physicists rarely inspect. Alfred North Whitehead inspects them: what nature's ultimate data are, how events and objects relate, and how scientific relativity reshapes both, with appendices on Newton's laws of motion and Maxwell's equations. The enquiry that opened his mature philosophy of nature. Examine the ground floor of science.
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27 chapters
- 1AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
- 2PREFACE
- 3PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- 4CONTENTS
- 5PART I THE TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE CHAPTER I MEANING
- 6CHAPTER II THE FOUNDATIONS OF DYNAMICAL PHYSICS
- 7APPENDIX I TO CHAPTER II NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
- 8APPENDIX II TO CHAPTER II MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS
- 9CHAPTER III SCIENTIFIC RELATIVITY
- 10APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III
- 11CHAPTER IV CONGRUENCE
- 12PART II THE DATA OF SCIENCE CHAPTER V THE NATURAL ELEMENTS
- 13CHAPTER VI EVENTS
- 14CHAPTER VII OBJECTS
- 15PART III THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION CHAPTER VIII PRINCIPLES OF THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
- 16CHAPTER IX DURATIONS, MOMENTS AND TIME-SYSTEMS
- 17CHAPTER X FINITE ABSTRACTIVE ELEMENTS
- 18CHAPTER XI POINTS AND STRAIGHT LINES
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