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• Natural Cause — On the Sacred Disease Natural Cause
• The Hidden Premise — Aristotle's Physics on Zeno's Paradoxes The Hidden Premise
• Proof by Steps — Euclid's Elements, the Asses' Bridge Proof by Steps
• Bounding the Truth — Archimedes on the Circle Bounding the Truth
• Religion's Cost — Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Religion's Cost
• Proof by Dissection — Galen Refutes Asclepiades on the Kidneys Proof by Dissection
• The Rule That Breaks — Brahmagupta on Cipher, and the Answer from His Own Tradition The Rule That Breaks
• Why a Method Needs Proof — al-Khwārizmī Draws the Same Case Twice Why a Method Needs Proof
• Common Is Not Cheap — Recorde's Scholer Refuses to Study Number Common Is Not Cheap
• A Symbol Argued For — Recorde and the Gemowe Lines A Symbol Argued For
• Attacking the Reason — Digges on Where Venus and Mercury Belong Attacking the Reason
• Answered by Adoption — Stevin Argues for the Art of Tenths Answered by Adoption
• The Idols of the Mind — Novum Organum on the Sources of Error The Idols of the Mind
• The Arithmetic of Proof — Harvey Calculates the Blood's Circulation The Arithmetic of Proof
• The Paralogism Exposed — Salviati and Simplicio on the Falling Stone The Paralogism Exposed
• Reasoned Doubt — The Sceptical Chymist Reasoned Doubt
• Crucial Experiment — Newton's Opticks and the Prism Crucial Experiment
• In What Degree — Price Sends the Royal Society a Dead Man's Problem In What Degree
• Prove Your Supposition — Lavoisier Against Phlogiston Prove Your Supposition
• The Deliberate Test — Jenner's Vaccination Experiment The Deliberate Test
• Valid on a False Premise — Carnot on the Motive Power of Heat Valid on a False Premise
• The Same Uniform Order — Lyell on Why Anyone Believed Otherwise The Same Uniform Order
• The Leap and the Limit — Lovelace on the Analytical Engine The Leap and the Limit
• From a Jar to a Planet — Foote on Carbonic Acid Gas From a Jar to a Planet
• Divided Credit — The Darwin-Wallace Letter of 1858 Divided Credit
• What the Excess Proves — Nightingale on Army Mortality What the Excess Proves
• Arguing Against Himself — Darwin and the Eye Arguing Against Himself
• The Habit of Asking Why — The Chemical History of a Candle The Habit of Asking Why
• A Number That Matched — Maxwell on the Velocity of Light A Number That Matched
• Doubting Your Own Idea — Bernard on the Experiment That Confirms Doubting Your Own Idea
• Rigor Before Results — Mendel Selects His Peas Rigor Before Results
• Necessary for What? — Jacobi Refuses a Question She Cannot Test Necessary for What?
• Excluding the Cause — Ayrton Takes the Air Away from the Arc Excluding the Cause
• Ruling Out the Rival — Curie Makes the Mineral Herself Ruling Out the Rival
• Deferring the Verdict — Stevens on What the Beetle Does and Does Not Show Deferring the Verdict
• An Idea Nobody Believed — Wegener and the Coastlines An Idea Nobody Believed
• The Meaning of a Day — Darrow Cross-Examines Bryan The Meaning of a Day