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The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone

How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms

Alan Chalmers

978-90-481-2362-9

2009
Edition 1
- The only book that covers the history of atomism in a scholarly way from Democritus to the twentieth century
- Gives substance to debates about the character of scientific knowledge through a sustained historical example
- Distinguishes between scientific and philosophical matter theories in an original way that will challenge historians and philosophers alike
- Distinguishes between mechanical and experimental philosophy in the seventeenth century that will require much traditional history of the science and philosophy of that period to be rewritten
- Provides an historically informed account of the distinctive features of science written in a clear and engaging way that makes it accessible to a wide audience
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