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THE first series of studies in the methods of science by distinguished French writers was reviewed in NATURE on September 23, 1909 (vol. lxxxi., p. 361). The present volume has the same general characteristics, though the point of view is more technical and less philosophical. The following branches of science, which were not dealt with in the former volume, receive attention—astronomy, physical chemistry, geology, botany and palæobotany, archæology, literary history, linguistics, and statistics. The essays should assist in providing the reader with a broad general view of scientific methods, and help to correct the narrowness which may result from a too exclusive absorption in a restricted field of scientific investigation.
De la Méthode dans les Sciences.
Deuxième Série. by B. Baillaud, L. Bertrand, L. Blaringhem, E. Borel, G. Lanson, L. March, A. Meillet, J. Perrin, S. Reinach, and R. Zeiller. Pp. iii + 365. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911.) Price 3.50 francs.
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De la Méthode dans les Sciences . Nature 87, 110 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087110a0
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