Unifying Scientific Theories
Subtitle: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521037600
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / General; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; General; Unified field theories
First sentence: In the Mysterium cosmographicum Johannes Kepler claimed that it was his intention to show that the celestial "machine" was not a kind of divine living being, but a kind of clockwork insofar as the multiplicity of motions depends on a single, quite simple magnetic and corporeal force, just as all the motions of a clock depend upon a simple weight.