To Save the Phenomena

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780226169217
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 530.01
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxvi, 120
Weight: 206g
Height: 142mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 8mm