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THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by scientific method in various departments of research. Prof. Case deals with scientific method as a mental operation; Prof. Francis Gotch, F.R.S., treats of various aspects of the method; Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., describes the scope and method of physiology; the lecture by the late Prof. Weldon discusses inheritance in animals and plants; Dr. W. McDougall explains the psychophysical method; Dr. A. H. Fison applies the method to the question of double stars, Sir Richard Temple to the evolution of currency and coinage, Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., to archleological evidence, and the Rev. Dr. Strong to history.
Lectures on the Method of Science.
Edited by T. B. Strong, Dean of Christ Church. Pp. viii + 249. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Lectures on the Method of Science . Nature 74, 149 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074149b0
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