Galileo's Mathematization of Nature at the Crossroad between the Empiricist and the Kantian Tradition

Perspectives on Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-188

  Massimi, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79958208928     PISSN: 10636145     EISSN: 15309274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/posc.2010.18.2.152     Document Type: Article

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