Essai sur la philosophie des sciences ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines -- EDITION ORIGINALE

P., Bachelier, 1834, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin noir, couvertures conservées (reliure de l'époque), 70pp., 272pp., 2 tableaux dépliants

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---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "En 1834, deux ans avant sa mort, AMPERE fait paraître un OUVRAGE GIGANTESQUE intitulé Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines. (En Français dans le texte N° 240) ---- "AMPERE's philosophical analysis also provided him with the key for his classification of the sciences, which he considered the capstone of his career. Like Kant, he was concerned with relating precisely what man could know with the sciences that dealt with each part of man's ability to know. The chart appended to his Essai sur la philosophie des sciences (1834) seems, at first glance, to be a fantastic and uncorrelated list of possible objects of investigation... In Ampère's classification this is divided into two second-order sciences - elementary general physics and mathematical physics. Each of these, in turn, has two divisions. Elementary general physics consists of experimental physics and chemistry ; mathematical physics is divided into stereonomy and atomology. Experimental physics deals with phenomena. Chemistry deals with the noumenal causes of the facts discovered by experimental physics... This classification reveals Ampère's far-ranging mind and permits us to understand his occasional excursions into botany, taxonomy and even animal anatomy and physiology... In his Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, he maintained that the fit was too good to be coincidence ; the classification must reflect truth. Once again he had found certainty where his predecessors had not... ". (DSB I p. 142) ** 81.ARM1D + 82.ARM5 + 83.ARB CART TENE