To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
| Authors | Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, 1861-1916 Dolan, Edmund Maschler, Chaninah |
| Series | Midway Reprint Series [0.0] |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Published | 01 gen 1969 |
| Date | 26 nov 2016 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | Amazon.com, uri: https://archive.org/details/tosavephenomenae0000duhe, lcc: 71-77978, oclc: 936629971, isbn: 9780226381657, doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226381657.001.0001 |
| Formats | AZW3, EPUB, PDF, PDF_OCR |
Description
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.