Pierre Duhem : philosophy and history in the work of a believing physicist
- Title
- Pierre Duhem : philosophy and history in the work of a believing physicist / R.N.D. Martin.
- Published by
- La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, ©1991.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 274 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- History.
- Contents
- A Catholic in a hostile world -- Defending Catholic authority -- Inspiration from Pascal -- The appropriation of Pascal -- The shape of a Pascalian methodology -- Critical history and its assumptions -- The discovery of mediaeval science -- Saving the phenomena and the system of the world -- Conclusion : The reception of Duhem's work.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-253) and index.