The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism
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The change of brightness of Mars together with the change of apparent size of the Moon could have played a role in the rejection of Eudoxus's homocentric spheres.
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From The planetary increase of brightness during retrograde motion: An explanandum constructed ad explanantem (2015) · cites this paper as Musgrave (1991: 259)
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Carman, C. C. (2015) · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.09.007 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
- Authors
- Musgrave, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Otago (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Musgrave, Alan
- Venue
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 243-280
- ISSN
- 0068-0346 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W10998825
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy, Science, and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Keywords
- Paul Feyerabend, realism, instrumentalism, Copernican astronomy, quantum mechanics, philosophy of science
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