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Reflections on the origin of modern physics

16th and 17th centuries

Joseph Kockelmans

pp. 22-35

In what follows I hope to discuss ideas of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton; in each case only very few observations can be made; yet I hope that what will be said will be adequate to explain what I have in mind: to show that the scientific praxis as a whole is inherently hermeneutical, and the same is true for all its constitutive aspects.1

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0379-7_2

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Kockelmans, J. (2002). Reflections on the origin of modern physics: 16th and 17th centuries, in Ideas for a hermeneutic phenomenology of the natural sciences II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 22-35.

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