Abstract:I think what interested me most in the history of science is the relationship between ideas held at different times, couched in similar terms, yet obviously having different contents and meaning. The ...I think what interested me most in the history of science is the relationship between ideas held at different times, couched in similar terms, yet obviously having different contents and meaning. The view of matter as composed of elementary corpuscles, atoms, preceded by two millennia the development of atomic history. What, if anything, does the second concept owe to the first? How, if not derived from the first, did the second arise?Dunn (1965, xvii)Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-05-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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