Duhem Thesis on Origin of Physics in Theology
Channel: Opcja Cauchy'ego
Date: 2023-11-06

Table of Content
0:10 - what is useful and true about physical theory.
2:00 - what is the difference between work of physicist and work of physiologist
3:17 - four key questions of method of physics
3:55 - four key aspects of method of physics.
7:30 - how physics emerged from scholastic theology

Bibliography:

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Duhem, P. The aim and structure of physical theory. Princeton University Press, 1954.

Duhem, P. Galileo’s Precursors: Translation of Studies on Leonardo da Vinci (vol. 3) by Pierre Duhem. translated by Alan Aversa, 2018. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23235.71201/1

Jaki, S. L. Science and Creation. Scottish Academic Press, 1986.

Jaki, S. L. The Relevance of Physics. Edinburgh University Press, 1961.

Leonhard Euler’s Elastic Curves, W. A. Oldfather, C. A. Ellis and Donald M. Brown, Source: Isis, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Nov., 1933), pp. 72-160

Newton, I. General Scholium, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by A. Motte. DANIEL ADEE, 45 LIBERTY STREET, 1846

On Dirac see Observability, Unobservability and the Copenhagen Interpretation in Dirac’s Methodology of Physics
Andrea Oldofredi∗ Michael Esfeld† https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02426.pdf 

correction: what I called "principle of abundance" here is called "principle of plentitude"