Chapter ID: CBB001032108

Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime (2009)

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Walter, Scott A. (Author)


Pages: 193--220
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


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Authors & Contributors
Ben-Menahem, Yemima
Buchwald, Diana Kormos
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Collins, Harry M.
Crull, Elise
Darrigol, Olivier
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Almagest
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
HOPOS
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Spacetime
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Physics
Relativity, general
Theoretical physics
People
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Einstein, Albert
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Manchak, John Byron
Maxwell, James Clerk
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
France
Institutions
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
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