Excerpt from The Art of Scientific Discovery: Or the General Conditions and Methods of Research in Physics and Chemistry The process of scientific discovery depends on a com binflation of experiment and logical inference; and the small success of previous writers respecting it has, in my Opinion, been due to the circumstance, that those who possessed both the experimental and the logical know ledge necessary, made no sufficiently persistent attempt to determine how far the work of scientific discovery may be reduced to an art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.