Newtons Methodologie: Eine Kritik an Duhem, Feyerabend und Lakatos.
The Newtonian research program consists of the core axioms of the Principia Mathematica, a sequence of force laws and auxiliary hypotheses, and a set of methodological rules. The latter underwent several changes and so it is sometimes claimed that, historically seen, Newton and the Newtonians added...
| Published in: | Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol. 101; no. 4; pp. 584 - 616 |
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De Gruyter
Dec2019
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