... by Duke University Press 2017 Adam Smith astronomy morality commercial society Fontenelle Copernican system gravity References Adkins Gregory Matthew . 2000 . “When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61 ( 3 ): 433 – 52...

... from the 684 History of Political Economy 10:4 (1978) astronomy essay. This text is said to show: “He [Smith] says of it [the Cartesian system] that it perfectly solved the most serious difficulties in the Copernican system, that it perfectly satisfied the requirements of the human...

... of the heavens, and while one can see a gradual increase in the richness and accuracy of these systems, there is no defin- itive system to correspond to reality. The Tychonic system helps under- score the arbitrariness of this, and even when the Copernican theory was first broached, there was no clear...

..., The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the De- velopment of Western Thought (1957), SSR was written while Kuhn was teaching (for fifteen years) in Harvard’s General Education in Science curriculum, which helps to explain the ambitious subtitle of the earlier volume. The curriculum “was devoted...

... and blurred-despite Thomas Kuhn's use of the Copernican system as the prototype of his theory of scientific revolutions. There is considerable support for the thesis that the extension of the perspectives in the "mirror for princes" tradition sheds more light on practical attitudes toward economic policy...

.... Toulmin , Stephen 1972 . Human understanding . Princeton, N.J.: 1972. Toulmin , Stephen 1975 . ‘Commentary.’ In Robert S. Westman, ed. The Copernican achievement (Berkeley). Toulmin , Stephen 1976 . ‘History, praxis and the “Third World.”’ In R. S. Cohen et al., eds. Essays...

.... Kuhn , T. S. 1957 . The Copernican Revolution . Cambridge, Mass. Kuhn , T. S. 1970 . The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , 2d edition. Chicago. Kunin , L. , and F. S. Weaver. 1971 . “On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions in Economics,” History of Political Economy , vol...

... surprise, the continuing importance of Aristotle in Hobbes’s physical speculations in the early 1640s during a reassessment of the issues put in question by the Copernican system and the mechanics of Galileo. This included “a close interrogation of the text” (i.e., Aristotle’s Physics).24...

... used as the reference base for realistic evaluations of economic and political interactions.Which is the Ptolemaic adjustment of a misconceived base, and which is the Copernican premise? The History of Ideas Is Just Old Reflections on Old Information. So Should We Pay More Attention...

... as the Copernican system that su- perseded the Ptolemaic system of classical economics. The opposing forces of supply and demand appeared to him as something like the epi- cycles of the Ptolemaic system, to be replaced by the unified solution of marginal value. As a consequence of the way in which...

... research programmes.’ In I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the growth of knowledge (Cambridge), p. 91 -196. Lakatos , I. , and E. Zahar 1975 . ‘Why did Copernicus' research program supersede Ptolemy's?’ In R. S. Westman, ed., The Copernican achievement (Berkeley, Calif.), p. 354...

... (1909–1935): Morgenstern Revisited .” Explorations in Economic History 28 : 259 – 73 . Galilei Galileo . 1967 . Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican . Translated by Drake Stillman . 2nd ed. Berkeley : University of California Press...

... have been complained of as hostile to Religion, will probably be regarded a century hence . . . with the same wonder, almost approaching to incredulity, with which we at the pres- ent day hear of men’s having sincerely opposed, on religious grounds, the Copernican system. (Whately 1831...

... appeared in that year. BRONFENBRENNER STRUCTURE OF REVOLUTIONS 139 would rank-for a noneconomist, at least-with the Copernican, New- tonian, and Darwinian revolutions in astronomy, physics, and biology, but they are the best economics has to offer...

... Revolutions: Adam Smith on Newton’s ‘Proof’ of Copernicanism .” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 : 697 – 732 . Skinner A. 1996 . A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Smith A. 1981 . An Inquiry into the Nature...

... in the light of (cognitive) values, notably, simplicity—a category that Knight deemed inherently purposive and antibehavioristic. In his correspondence with Copeland, he drew directly from Poincaré’s famous discussion of the kinematical equiva- lence between Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy: 15...

..., heliocentric astronomy would probably have created no trouble with the Church were it not that the Copernicans refused the role of mere calculators, claiming truth rather than mere convenience for the heliocentric mathematical system (Westman 1980). It was not for mathematicians to challenge the truths...

... , L. R. 1966 . The Keynesian Revolution . 2d ed. New York: Macmillan. (First published, 1947.) Kohn , M. 1986 . Monetary Analysis, the Equilibrium Method, and Keynes's “General Theory.” Journal of Political Economy 94 . 6 ( December ). Kuhn , T. S. 1957 . The Copernican...

... Abilities of Man, and he was not impressed by the “new Copernican theoryIt may possibly turn out to be true, but the proof will have to be more rigid than anything provided so far in ‘The Abilities of Man’” (1927, 183). The chief deficiencies were in the sampling theory of the tetrad differences...

... doctrine in this period. Gassendi in- tended his rehabilitation of ancient physics and ethics to be a replace- ment for Aristotelian natural and social philosophy, which he considered to be not only inconsistent with Copernican astronomy and Galileo’s new mechanics but also unsatisfactory from the view...