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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo

By Duhem , Pierre Maurice Marie , 1861-1916 & Dolan , Edmund & Maschler , Chaninah

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1969
ISBN
9780226381657
DOI
10.7208/chicago/9780226381657.001.0001
ASIN
B01BWMDYRU
Language
eng
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2193809 bytes)
Series
Midway Reprint Series
Volume
0.0
Pages
\164
Time added
2024-05-27 02:27:55

Description

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.

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