Thursday, March 10, 2011

More Passages from Burtt's Book

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Last post I excerpted selections of E.A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science on Newton as a metaphysician (in the pejora...
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Monday, February 07, 2011

Newton the Metaphysician

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I finally got around to reading a book I've had in my library for some years now and am sorry that it took me so long to get to it. E.A....
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Heisenberg on Nature and Science

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Last post , I mentioned how I have been reading Werner Heisenberg's Gifford Lectures (1955-56), and I related an incisive insight of hi...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Peace on Earth (to Men of Good Will)

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Hail the newborn Prince of Peace! For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his n...
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

Hawking off the Reservation Again

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The media have been aflurry with Hawking's latest pronouncement. The Wall Street Journal features an excerpt of his recently published...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Fallacious Application of "non-Euclidean" to Physical Space

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Physicists sometimes talk about space—by which they of course mean physical space—as Euclidean or non-Euclidean. The problem with this way o...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Feminism and the Experimental Exemplar

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In response to my last post an anonymous commentator took me to task for my statements about women. With admirable concision, she says, ...
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