INDEX 



267 



Metaphysical theory, Larmor's, 

 27 ; Lorentz's, 28 ; influence 

 on thought, 28. 



Metaphysics, definition, i. 



Method, of physics a model, 

 3 ; abstractive and hypo- 

 thetical, 13; Rankine's, 20; 

 the author's outline, 115; 

 Laplace's opinion, 232. 



Michelet, 69. 



Michelson, A. A., ether drift, 

 159. 179; velocity of light in 

 moving media, 177. 



Minkowski, four dimensional 

 space, in. 



Models, for radiation, 123 ; see 

 Atoms. 



Moral influence of science, 

 213. 



More, L. T., outline of a sci- 

 entific method, 115; on ether 

 stresses, 161. 



More, P. E., on Nietzsche and 

 the doctrine of egoism, 258. 



Morley, Edward, on ether 

 drift, 159, 179. 



Motion, real and hypothetical, 

 152. 



Naturalism, as social evolu- 

 tion, 243. 



Nebular hypothesis, 74. 



Newton, on hypothesis, title 

 page; calculus, 5; law of 

 gravitation, 6, 21, its appli- 

 cation to atoms, 7, 40, 74; 

 hypothesis of light, 19, 21, 

 226; action and reaction, 115; 

 classical mechanics, 142, 154 

 el seq.; on mass, 155; re- 

 placing Kepler's laws, 203. 



Nietzsche, Fr, reaction against 

 humanitarianism, 258. 



Occult, substances and forces, 



Organon of Aristotle, the text 

 for Greek and medieval sci- 

 ence, 230. 



Organum Novum of Bacon, 

 the authority for modern 

 science, 231. 



Ostwald, W., science of ener- 

 getics, 22. 



Peripatetic school, 231. 



Philosophy, metaphysical 

 teaching of scientific, i. 

 of Greeks characterized by 

 Bacon, 231; of Hobbes, 234; 

 scientific, 236 et seq. 



Physical theory, nature of, 12; 

 aims of, 37; originators of, 

 41. 



Physics, has best scientific 

 method, 2; relation to meta- 

 physics, 3; dates from, 39. 



Planck, Max, quantum theory 

 of discontinuity, 119; on 

 principle of relativity, 165. 



Plato, the world as idea, 231 ; 

 and eugenics, 248. 



Plenum, 40; Larmor's 46; 

 Descartes's, 83. 



Poincare, H., on hypothesis of 

 ether, 59; The Foundations 

 of Science, 193 ; as a skeptic, 

 193 ; on the scientific method, 

 194; on generalizations, 194; 

 on hypothesis as a conveni- 

 ence, 198; classification of 

 hypotheses, 200; the new 

 mechanics, 203 ; the func- 

 tion of science, 204; defini- 

 tion of matter, 205. 219. 



Postulates of science, their 

 truth, 81 ; extent, as a fun- 

 damental attribute, 82; of 

 Descartes, 85, 148; of Ein- 

 stein, 165; of the new me- 

 chanics, 174; their sub- 

 jectivity, 219. 



Power, the aim of science, 

 214; as the desire of man- 

 kind, 258, 260. 



Primordial space and time, 72, 

 86. 



Principia Naturae of De- 

 cartcs, 79 et sea. 



Principle of Newton, title 

 pane, 155. 



Proclus, science as mathemat- 

 ics, 232. 



