Mathematical vs. Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science
@article{Kuhn1976MathematicalVE, title={Mathematical vs. Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science}, author={T. Kuhn}, journal={Journal of Interdisciplinary History}, year={1976}, volume={7}, pages={1} }
Mathematical vs. Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science Anyone who studies the history of scientific development repeatedly encounters a question, one version of which would be, "Are the sciences one or many?" Ordinarily that question is evoked by concrete problems of narrative organization, and these become especially acute when the historian of science is asked to survey his subject in lectures or in a book of significant scope. Should he take up the sciences one by… Expand
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