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Jean Perrin and molecular reality (1994)

Achinstein, Peter (Author)

Perspectives on Science
Volume: 2
Pages: 396-427
Publication date: 1994

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Description “Jean Perrin's argument for the existence of molecules from his 1908 experimental determination of Avogadro's number raises two questions considered in this article. One is historical: Why as late as 1908 should Perrin have thought it necessary to argue that molecules exist? The other, which takes up the bulk of this article, is philosophical: In view of the fact that his argument appears to assume the existence of molecules as a premise, how, if at all, can a charge of circularity be avoided?” From the abstract.

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