The Heavens Declare The Glory Of Kepler

Induction For Deduction, With A View To Construction.

After Montesquieu, The Next Great Addition To Sociology (which Is The Term I May Be Allowed To Invent To Designate Social Physics) Was Made By Condorcet, Proceeding On The Views Suggested By His Illustrious Friend Turgot.

The Dead Govern The Living.

Every Science Consists In The Coordination Of Facts; If The Different Observations Were Entirely Isolated, There Would Be No Science.

The Mathematical Thermology Created By Fourier May Tempt Us To Hope That, As He Has Estimated The Temperature Of The Space In Which We Move, Me May In Time Ascertain The Mean Temperature Of The Heavenly Bodies: But I Regard This Order Of Facts As For Ever Excluded From Our Recognition. We Can Never Learn Their Internal Constitution, Nor, In Regard To Some Of Them, How Heat Is Absorbed By Their Atmosphere. We May Therefore Define Astronomy As The Science By Which We Discover The Laws Of The Geometrical And Mechanical Phenomena Presented By The Heavenly Bodies.