History of Science in an Elegiac Mode: E. A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Revisited

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Previous articleNext article No AccessA Second LookHistory of Science in an Elegiac Mode: E. A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science RevisitedLorraine DastonLorraine Daston Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 82, Number 3Sep., 1991 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/355842 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1991 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Silvia Manzo Metaphysics and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy: An Introduction, (Dec 2020): 1–3.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_519-1Konstantinos Chatzigeorgiou How the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part I, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (May 2020).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.05.002Konstantinos Chatzigeorgiou How the mind-world problem shaped the history of science: A historiographical analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science part II, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (May 2020).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.05.003Steven J. Dick The Philosophy of Astronomy, Cosmology, and Astrobiology: A Preliminary Reconnaissance, (May 2020): 631–653.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0_37Steven J. Dick Critical Issues in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Astrobiology, (May 2020): 655–693.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0_38Mark Thomas Young Nature as Spectacle; Experience and Empiricism in Early Modern Experimental Practice, Centaurus 59, no.1-21-2 (Feb 2018): 72–96.https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12155Harold J. Cook Amsterdam, entrepôt des savoirs au XVIIe siècle, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 55-2, no.22 (Jan 2008): 19.https://doi.org/10.3917/rhmc.552.0019Craig Fraser Hamilton-Jacobi Methods and Weierstrassian Field Theory in the Calculus of Variations: A Study in the Interaction of Mathematics and Physics, (Jan 2000): 93–101.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9558-2_7 John Neu Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 1991, Isis 82 (Oct 2015): 1–271.https://doi.org/10.1086/356021