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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Thomas S. Kuhn Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xviii, 297. $5.50.

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Philip P. Wiener
Philip P. Wiener*
Affiliation:
The City College, New York
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1958 , pp. 297 - 299
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Copyright © 1958, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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References

1 Cf. J. H. Randall, Jr., Nature and Historical Experience (New York, 1958) for a philosophical analysis of “functional realism.”

2 “All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research is facts and conditions but never causes.” O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Second edition (Providence, R. I.: Brown University Press, 1957), p. 225.