Demopoulos, Williams (Author)
Frappier, Melanie (Author)
Bub, Jeffrey (Author)
We present a translation of Poincaré's hitherto untranslated essay of 1912: Les conceptions nouvelles de la matière. We distinguish two strands in Poincaré's thinking about atomism. One strand concerns the possibility of deciding the atomic hypothesis. The other strand is concerned with whether the analysis of matter has a finite bound. We show that Poincaré accepted Perrin's investigations as demonstrating the existence of atoms.
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Walter, Scott;
(2009)
Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime
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Pellón González, Inés;
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(1997)
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(1999)
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments
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