Article ID: CBB441839030

Comte, Mach, Planck, and Eddington: a study of influence across generations (2016)

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Auguste Comte is frequently ridiculed by astronomers for saying that human beings would never be able to know the physical nature and constitution of the stars. His philosophy, however, influenced scientists throughout his lifetime and for over a century after his death. That influence is traced here in the work of three outstanding scientists who spanned, roughly speaking, three successive generations after his own, namely, Ernst Mach, Max Planck and Arthur Stanley Eddington.

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Authors & Contributors
Abt, Helmut A.
Almassi, Benjamin S. P.
Blackmore, John T.
Charak, Gregory Scott
Crawford, Paulo
Fuller, Steven
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
British Journal for the History of Science
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
University of Washington
de Gruyter
Edizioni ETS
Oxford University Press
Carleton University (Canada)
University of California, San Diego
Concepts
Physics
Stars; stellar astronomy
Astronomy
Philosophy of science
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Relativity
People
Planck, Max
Mach, Ernst
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Einstein, Albert
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
15th century
Places
Germany
Vienna (Austria)
Great Britain
Europe
Portugal
United States
Institutions
Kitt Peak National Observatory
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