corpuscularism

A mechanical philosophy related to the nature of matter, influential in seventeenth-century chemistry and discussed in relation to Robert Boyle.

2 chapters across 1 book

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)Thomas S. Kuhn

8. Leo Königsberger, Hermann von Helmholtz, trans. Francis A. Welby (Oxford, 1906), pp. 65–66.

This chapter primarily consists of bibliographic references and brief commentary related to the development of scientific paradigms and knowledge acquisition. It highlights the role of tacit knowledge in scientific success, as argued by Michael Polanyi, and touches on Ludwig Wittgenstein's perspective on language and naming in relation to scientific understanding. The chapter situates these ideas within broader historical and philosophical contexts, emphasizing the priority and influence of paradigms in shaping scientific thought.

2. See, for example, the remarks by P. P. Wiener in Philosophy of Science, XXV (1958), 298.

This chapter primarily consists of bibliographic references that support the historical and philosophical analysis of scientific theories and explanations. It cites works discussing the overthrow of the phlogiston theory, corpuscularism, mechanical philosophy, and the scientific contributions of figures like Newton and Franklin. These references collectively underscore the complex interplay between scientific ideas, their historical contexts, and the development of scientific explanation.