Constellations and Conjectures
An occurrence is explained by being related to prior events through known laws. Other intellectual activities may also constitute explanation - but this much certainly does. Ideally, an explained occurrence (0) could have been predicted in a connected way - by extrapolation from prior events (e) via...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Book One - Part I
- Cosmological Explanation, B.C.
- The Conceptual Content of Book One, Part I
- The Historical Content of Book One, Part I
- Plato
- Eudoxos and ‘Plato’s Problem’
- Aristotle
- Book One - Part II
- Ptolemy and Prediction
- Pre-Ptolemaic Anticipations
- Three Dimensional Variations of Ptolemy’s Technique
- Book Two - Part I
- The Medieval Rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Tool Box
- ‘The Ptolemaic System’
- Supplementary Material for Book Two, Section A
- Book Two - Part II
- Copernicus’ Systematic Astronomy
- Further Aspects of Copernican Astronomy in Contrast to All that had Gone Before
- Supplement to Section on Copernican Theory
- Book Three - Part I
- Kepler and the ‘Clean’ Idea
- Supplementary Material for Book Three, Part I.