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

by Pierre Duhem

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226169219
• ISBN13: 9780226169217
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"