Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

Name: Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy
Author: John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Sonya Schermann, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2017-06-12

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Public domain in the USA.

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Science -- History Astronomy -- History Science -- Philosophy Physics -- History

About the author

John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

1792–1871

A brilliant 19th-century scientist with a gift for making complex ideas clear, he helped shape modern astronomy while also leaving a mark on photography and scientific language. Son of William Herschel, he built a reputation entirely his own through wide-ranging curiosity and careful observation.

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