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To Save the Phenomena: An essay on the idea of physical theory from Plato to Galileo, By Pierre Duhem (translated from the French by Edmund Doland and Chaninah Maschler) with an introductory essay by Stanley L. Jaki. (Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press. Price 68s.)

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To Save the Phenomena: An essay on the idea of physical theory from Plato to Galileo, By Pierre Duhem (translated from the French by Edmund Doland and Chaninah Maschler) with an introductory essay by Stanley L. Jaki. (Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press. Price 68s.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

R. Niall D. Martin
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Philosophy , Volume 45 , Issue 174 , October 1970 , pp. 344 - 346
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1970

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1 This was a consequence of the mathematical devices known as eccentrics, epicycles, and equants. The first referred to a circle whose centre was not the earth, the second a circle whose centre itself moved in a circle, and the third a circular motion appearing uniform from an interior point which was neither its centre nor at the centre of the earth.

2 Personal communication.

3 The status of physics was at no time in question. Neither Duhem nor any of the people he discusses applies an instrumentalist theory to all knowledge.

4 Paris 10 vols. 1913–59. (As planned, the work had 12 volumes and was never finished.)

5 Translation of P. P. Wiener, Princeton 1954. The original French (La theorie physique, son objet et sa structure, Paris 1905 and 1914 is widely available and preferableGoogle Scholar