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

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

Midway Reprint Series

Pierre Duhem with Edmund Dolan (Translator), Chaninah Maschler (Translator)

152 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction science
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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 C...

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