作者: Duhem Pierre Duhem

These selections from Le systeme du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), focus on cosmology, Duhem’s greatest …

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 gi …