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Pierre Duhem
To Save the Phenomena [EPUB ebook]
An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780226381657 ● Translator Edmund Dolan & Chaninah Maschler ● Publisher University of Chicago Press ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4857095 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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