An excellent late 19th-century philosophical study of scientific method and logic; covering the mathematics of science in the principles of number; induction, propositions, etc; referencing major figures in western philosophy and science from Kant to Leibniz to Kepler to Herschel.In this famed work W. Stanley Jevons defines the laws of logical thought as governed primarily by inductive inquiry and deductive reasoning, supported with experimental verification. The cover depicts the famed Logical Machine devised by Jevons, which earned much acclaim at its exhibition at the Royal Society in...

An excellent late 19th-century philosophical study of scientific method and logic; covering the mathematics of science in the principles of number; induction, propositions, etc; referencing major figures in western philosophy and science from Kant to Leibniz to Kepler to Herschel.In this famed work W. Stanley Jevons defines the laws of logical thought as governed primarily by inductive inquiry and deductive reasoning, supported with experimental verification. The cover depicts the famed Logical Machine devised by Jevons, which earned much acclaim at its exhibition at the Royal Society in...

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), English economist and logician,
was one of three men to simultaneously advance the socalled
"marginal revolution." Jevons work "The Theory of Political
Economy" (1871), along with similar discoveries made by Carl
Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland
(1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of
economic thought. Jevons studied chemistry and botany at University
College, London. Because of the bankruptcy of his fathers business in 1847, Jevons left school to take up the position of assayer at the Mint in Sydney,...

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