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Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science [Book Review]
Review of Metaphysics 40 (2):365-366 (1986)
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This book, as the Preface reports, is the first of a series from the Johns Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. The essays in this book were invited from both historians of and philosophers of science on the general theme of "testing of hypotheses in modern physics by observation and experiment," accordingly none has been previously published.Author's Profile
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