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To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
by Pierre Duhem
translated by Edmund Dolan and Chaninah Maschler
introduction by Stanley L. Jaki
University of Chicago Press, 1969
Cloth: 978-0-226-16920-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-16921-7 | eISBN: 978-0-226-38165-7
Library of Congress Classification QC6.D7873
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.01

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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 Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.



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