“If a thought style is … far removed from ours …, no common understanding is any longer possible. Words cannot then be translated and concepts have nothing in common with ours. Even shared motifs … are missing.” FleckLudwik, Genesis and development of a scientific fact, transl. by BradleyF.TrennThaddeus (Chicago, 1979), 141.
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Later, they acknowledge that these “universals” are subject to future revision, as they are based upon empirical studies (pp. 178–9).
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WhitesideD. T., “Before the Principia: The maturing of Newton's thoughts on dynamical astronomy, 1664–1684”, Journal for the history of astronomy, i (1970), 5–19.
