To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical by Pierre Duhem,Stanley L. Jaki,Edmund Dolan,Chaninah Maschler

By Pierre Duhem,Stanley L. Jaki,Edmund Dolan,Chaninah Maschler

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation among actual concept and metaphysics and, extra in particular, among astronomy and physics–an factor nonetheless of significance at the present time. He opinions the solutions given through Greek notion, Arabic technology, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, ultimately, the astronomers of the Renaissance.

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