Table of Contents

Preface to the third edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Logic and scientific inference; 2. Probability; 3. Sampling; 4. Errors; 5. Physical magnitudes; 6. Mensuration; 7. Newtonian dynamics; 8. Light and relativity; 9. Miscellaneous questions; 10. Statistical mechanics and quantum theory; Appendices; Index.

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A consistent 1931 account of how the theories proposed by physicists have been derived from, and are supported by, experimental data.