Introduction

Robert Stern

Translators' Note

Glossary

IDEAS FOR A PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Supplement: Exposition of the General Idea of Philosophy as Such, and of the Philosophy of Nature in Particular, as a Necessary and Integral Part of It

Book I

Of the Combustion of Bodies

Supplement: A New View of the Combustion Process

Of Light

Supplement: Concerning the Theory of Light in the Philosphy of Nature

Of the Air and the Kinds of Air

Supplement: Some Remarks on the History of the Decomposition of Water

Of Electricity

Supplement: On the Construction of Electricity in the Philosophy of Nature

Of the Magnet

Supplement: The Doctrine of the Philosophy of Nature on Magnetism

General Considerations, as Results of the Foregoing

Supplement: Universal Features of the Dynamic Process

Book II

On Attraction and Repulsion in General, as Principles of a System of Nature

Supplement: General View of the System of the World

On the Fictious Use of These Two Principles

Supplement: On the Concept of Forces in General and More Espcially in Newtonianism

Some Remarks on the Mechanical Physics of M. le Sage

Supplement: General Remark on Atomism

First Origin of the Concept of Matter, from the Nature of Perception and the Human Mind

Supplement: The Construction of Matter

Basic Principles of Dynamics

Supplement: Notes on the Foregoing Idealist Construction of Matter

Of Contingent Determinations of Matter-Gradual Transition into the Domain of Mere Experience

Supplement: Of the Form-Determinations and Specific Difference of Matter

Philosophy of Chemistry in General

Supplement: Is Chemistry as a Science Possible?

Application of These Principles to Particular Topics of Chemistry

Appendix to the Previous Section [Literary Notices]

Supplement: On the Substances in Chemisry

Projected Outline of the First Principles of Chemistry

Supplement: Construction of the Chemical Process

Concluding Note and Transition to the Following Part

Appendix: Checklist of Scientific Authors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects