Plato and Eudoxus: Instrumentalists, realists, or prisoners of themata?

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(95)00046-1MaRDI QIDQ4883940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norriss S. Hetherington

Publication date 22 August 1996

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(95)00046-1

zbMATH Keywords

EudoxosPlatoancient planetary theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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