Chapter 2.
Lessons from the History of Science

Contents: §1. The Scientific Attitude §2. The Scientific Imagination §3. Science and Morality §4. Mathematics §5. Science as a Guide to Conduct §6. Morality and Sham Reasoning §7. The Method of Authority §8. Science and Continuity §9. The Analytic Method §10. Kinds of Reasoning §11. The Study of the Useless §12. Il Lume Naturale §13. Generalization and Abstraction §14. The Evaluation of Exactitude §15. Science and Extraordinary Phenomena §16. Reasoning from Samples §17. The Method of Residual Phenomena §18. Observation §19. Evolution §20. Some A Priori Dicta §21. The Paucity of Scientific Knowledge §22. The Uncertainty of Scientific Results §23. Economy of Research