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

Batten, Alan H. (Author)

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 19
Issue: 1
Pages: 51-60

URI: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JAHH...19...51B

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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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