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Elements of natural history in Sidereus Nuncius [PDF]

, 2014
Scholars often saw 'Sidereus nuncius' as inaugurating a novel genre of scientific writing; one that mixes elements of astronomy and natural philosophy, mixed-mathematics and travel reports, cosmography and the conventions of baroque drawing, elements of ...
Jalobeanu, Dana
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Islamic Views on Contemporary Cosmology

Zygon
Here, I present classical and contemporary Islamic views on cosmology in both its ancient or medieval and modern definitions. I briefly review the main ideas of Muslim thinkers (philosophers, exegetes, Sufis, etc.) from over a thousand years ago to today.
Nidhal Guessoum
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Can Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability Be an Image of Science? [PDF]

, 2018
I criticize Kuhn’s (1962/1970) taxonomic incommensurability thesis as follows. (i) His argument for it is neither deductively sound nor inductively correct. (ii) It clashes with his account of scientific development that employs evolutionary theory. (iii)
Park, Seungbae
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History of science in basic physics education: what topics are part of this history?

Revista Internacional de Formação de Professores, 2017
Taking as theme the use of the history and philosophy of science as a strategy for the physics teaching in high school, we aim to investigate which topics of physics have already been the object of proposals and investigations in this sense. For this, we
Andre Coelho da Silva, Ana Amélia Cyrineu   +1 more
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Book Review: Galactic Encounters

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2016
Georgios eBalasis
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Galileo's Mathematization of Nature at the Crossroad between the Empiricist and the Kantian Tradition [PDF]

, 2010
Massimi, Michela
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The Impressionability of Multidimensional Character of Allama Qutb al-Din Shirazi, from the Cultural Atmosphere of Shiraz

Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2014
Allama Qutb al-Din Shirazi, is one of the elders and luminaries of Iran and the Islamic world and one of the great characters in the history of science in the world. Despite of the popularity of Allameh Qutb al-Din in medicine, he had reached to a degree
Mostafa Nadim
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Reconstructing the intellectual neighbourhood: tracing Ali Qushji's influence in science. [PDF]

F1000Res
Nurulla-Khoja N.
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Comparative Evidence-Based Model Choice: A Sketch of a Theory. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Bandyopadhyay PS, Shetty S, Brittan G.
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How stupid has science been? [PDF]

EMBO Rep
Caplan A.
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