Ariew Roger, Barker Peter (eds.) Pierre Duhem. Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science

Hackett Publishing, 1996. — 290 p. — ISBN 0-87220-308-5; ISBN 0-87220-309-3.Pierre Duhem: Life and Works.
Selected Bibliography of Duhem’s Works.
Selected Bibliography of Works on Duhem Some Reflections on the Subject of Physical Theories.
On the Aim of Physical Theory.
On Definitions in Physical Theory.
On Hypotheses in Physical Theory.
On the Limits of Theory and on the Modifications It Can Undergo.
On Mechanical Theories.
Theoretical Physics Is Not a Metaphysical Explanation of the Material World.
On the Role of Mechanical Theories in the History of Science.
All the Theories of a Single Class of Phenomena Are Not Equivalent.
On the Role that Mathematics and Experimentation Ought To Play in the Construction of Physical Theory.
How Theoretical Physics Is Useful Physics and Metaphysics’.
The Distinction between Physics and Metaphysics.
That Physics Logically Precedes Metaphysics.
Physics Rests on Principles Evident in Themselves and Independent of Any Metaphysical Considerations.
Physical Theories Are Independent of Metaphysics and Vice Versa.
The Thesis Presented Above Is Neither Skeptical Nor Positivistic.
The Preceding Thesis from the Viewpoint of Tradition The English School and Physical Theories: On a Recent Book by W. Thomson.
Some Reflections on the Subject of Experimental Physics.
First Part.
What Is an Experiment in Physics?
Second Part.
What Is a Law of Physics?
Conclusion Analysis of Mach’s From the Gregorian Reform of the Calendar to the Condemnation of Galileo.
Conclusion Letter to Father Bulliot, on Science and Religion.
History of Physics.
A Glance at Ancient Physics.
Science and Early Christian Scholars.
A Glance at Arabic Physics.
Arabic Tradition and Latin Scholasticism.
The Science of Observation and Its Progress: Astronomers; The Statics of Jordanus;
Theodoric of Freiberg; Pierre of Maricourt.
The Articles of Paris (): The Possibility of Vacuum.
The Earth’s Motion: Oresme.
Plurality of Worlds.
Dynamics: Theory of Impetus; Inertia;
Celestial and Sublunary Mechanics Identical.
Propagation of the Doctrines of the School of Paris in Germany and Italy; Peurbach and Regiomontanus; Nicholas of Cusa; da Vinci.
Italian Averroism and Its Tendencies to Become Routine; Attempts at Restoring the Astronomy of Homocentric Spheres.
The Copernican Revolution.
Fortunes of the Copernican System in the Sixteenth Century.
Statics in the Sixteenth Century: Stevin.
Dynamics in the Sixteenth Century.
Galileo’s Work.
Initial Attempts in Celestial Mechanics: Gilbert; Kepler.
Controversies Concerning Geostatics.
Descartes’s Work.
Progress of Experimental Physics.
Undulatory Theory of Light.
Developments of Dynamics.
Newton’s Work.
Progress of General and Celestial Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century.
Establishment of the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism.
Molecular Attraction.
Revival of the Undulatory Theory of Light.
Theories of Heat The Nature of Mathematical Reasoning’ Logical Examination of Physical Theory’ Research on the History of Physical Theories’ Some Reflections on German Science.