This text, which draws its central idea from Jacques Turgot's history of physics, says that its title topic is"distinguished from the ancient" chiefly by the "rejection of all inquiring into causes." It proposes a process forelucidating natural laws which John Stuart Mill labeled "the inverse deductive method." This text ar
This text, which draws its central idea from Jacques Turgot's history of physics, says that its title topic is"distinguished from the ancient" chiefly by the "rejection of all inquiring into causes." It proposes a process forelucidating natural laws which John Stuart Mill labeled "the inverse deductive method." This text argues thatmore complex fields of study progress more slowly than simpler ones, and uses Newton's laws of motion as anexample of the endpoint of the movement from theological, to metaphysical, to scientific knowledge. This textalso argues that sociology discovers the laws of all other fields. For 10 points, name this text which advancesthe "law of three stages" and explains the theories of Auguste Comte. 