The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume I (Chapman's Quarterly Series, No. III)

xxxvi, 480, 36 pp. Volume I only. CONTENTS: Introduction; Account of the Aim of This Work--View of the Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy; View of the Hierarchy of the Positive Sciences; Books I. Mathematics: Mathematics, Abstract an Concrete - General View of Mathematical Analysis - General View of Geometry - Rational Mechanics; Book II. Astronomy: General View - Methods of Study of Astronomy - Geometrical Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies - Celestial Statics - Celestial Dynamics - Sidereal Astronomy and Cosmogony; Book III. Physics: General View - Barology -Thermology - Acoustics - Optics - Electrology; Book IV. Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry - Doctrine of Definite Proportions - The Electro-Chemical Theory - Organic Chemistry; Book V. Biology: General View of Biology - Anatomical Philosophy - Biotaxic Philosophy - Organic or Vegetative Life - The Animal Life - Intellectual and Moral or Cerebral Functions.