Selected Writings
Most of his work was published posthumously.
- 1877. "The Ethics of Belief," Contemporary Review.
- 1878. Elements of Dynamic, London: MacMillan & Co; on-line presentation by Cornell University Historical Mathematical Monographs.
- 1879. Seeing and Thinking, popular science lectures.
- 1879. Lectures and Essays, with an introduction by Sir Frederick Pollock.
- 1882. Mathematical Papers (at Google Books; at American Mathematical Society), edited by R Tucker, with an introduction by Henry J. S. Smith.
- 1885. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. Completed by Karl Pearson.
- 1887. Elements of Dynamic, vol. 2, in Ewald, William B., ed., 1996. From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics, 2 vols. Oxford University Press.
- 1872. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought, 524-41.
- 1876. On the Space-Theory of Matter.
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