Essay Review: History and Methodology: Fact and Theory. An Aspect of Philosophy of Science

Whewell William , Of a liberal education in general; and with particular reference to the leading studies of the University of Cambridge (London, 1845).

Cambridge, Mass., 1950–54.

Conant James B. , On understanding science. An historical approach (Oxford, 1947); Science and common sense (New Haven, 1951).

On understanding science, 59.

Kuhn Thomas S. , The structure of scientific revolutions (Chicago, 1962).

On understanding science, 47.

Holton Gerald Roller Duane H. D. , Foundations of modern physical science (Reading, Mass., 1958).

Burtt Edwin Arthur , The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science. A historical and critical essay (2nd ed., London, 1932).

Hanson Norwood Russell , Patterns of discovery (Cambridge, 1958); The concept of the positron. A philosophical analysis (Cambridge, 1963).

Hesse Mary B. , Forces and fields. The concept of action at a distance in the history of physics (London, 1961).

Sabra A. I. , Theories of light from Descartes to Newton (London, 1967).

Cf. for instance, Buchdahl Gerd , Metaphysics and the philosophy of science. The classical origins: Descartes to Kant (Oxford, 1969), ch.3, pp. 86, 96, 118–126, 141; Denissoff E. , Descartes, premier théoricien de la physique mathématique (Louvain, 1970), Ile essai, 39 ff.