Contents: Book I: Preliminary Studies: 1. The Search for Documents (Heuristic). 2. "Auxiliary Sciences". Book - II: Analytical Operations: 3. General Conditions of Historical Knowledge. Section- I: External criticism. 4. Textual Criticism. 5. Critical Investigation of Authorship. 6. Critical Classification of Sources. 7. Critical Scholarship and Scholars. Section- II: Internal criticism. 8. Interpretative Criticism (Hermeneutic). 9. The Negative Internal criticism of the Good Faith and Accuracy of Authors. 10. The Determination of particular Facts. Books - III: Synthetic Operations: 11. General Conditions of Historical Construction. 12. The grouping of facts. 13. Constructive Reasoning. 14. The Construction of general Formule. 15. Exposition. Conclusion.
