Geometrical and physical conventionalism of Henri Poincaré in epistemological formulation

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(91)90012-HMaRDI QIDQ5202154zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jerzy Giedymin

Publication date 1991

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(91)90012-h

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetismSchwarzschildopticsnon-Euclidean geometriesphilosophy of geometrygeometrical conventionalismgeometrical empiricismHamilton-Hertz-Poincaré conception of physical theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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