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  1. The use of converse abduction in Kepler.JohanArnt Myrstad - 2004 - Foundations of Science 9 (3):321-338.
    This paper explains how Kepler in his ``War onMars'' applied systems of models organized bothin a perspectival and in a stratifiedconceptual sense. With the help of thesesystems Kepler worked out successively moredeterminate models for the planetary orbits.Along the way he discovered the Keplerian lawsas consequences of the distance rule, hisleading regulative principle. The selection ofdecisive, so called privileged, observations,as well as the determinate geometrical andkinematical description of the phenomena,result from the application of this principleto the developing of models. Kepler's method (...)
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  • The Use of Converse Abduction in Kepler.Johan Arnt Myrstad - 2004 - Foundations of Science 9 (3):321-338.
    This paper explains how Kepler in his ``War onMars'' applied systems of models organized bothin a perspectival and in a stratifiedconceptual sense. With the help of thesesystems Kepler worked out successively moredeterminate models for the planetary orbits.Along the way he discovered the Keplerian lawsas consequences of the distance rule, hisleading regulative principle. The selection ofdecisive, so called privileged, observations,as well as the determinate geometrical andkinematical description of the phenomena,result from the application of this principleto the developing of models. Kepler's method (...)
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  • Interrogative Reasoning and Discovery: a New Perspective on Kepler's Inquiry.Mika Kiikeri - 1999 - Philosophica 63 (1).
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  • Understanding (in) Newton’s Argument for Universal Gravitation.Steffen Ducheyne - 2009 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 40 (2):227-258.
    In this essay, I attempt to assess Henk de Regt and Dennis Dieks recent pragmatic and contextual account of scientific understanding on the basis of an important historical case-study: understanding in Newton’s theory of universal gravitation and Huygens’ reception of universal gravitation. It will be shown that de Regt and Dieks’ Criterion for the Intelligibility of a Theory (CIT), which stipulates that the appropriate combination of scientists’ skills and intelligibility-enhancing theoretical virtues is a condition for scientific understanding, is too strong. (...)
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  • Clairaut's critique of Newtonian attraction: Some insights into his philosophy of science.Philip Chandler - 1975 - Annals of Science 32 (4):369-378.
    Through an examination of the controversy between Clairaut and Buffon occasioned by Clairaut's proposed revision of Newton's inverse-square law, Clairaut's understanding of Newtonianism is revealed. The interplay in his thought between the possibility of falsification , and the necessity of seeking verification in terms of mathematically precise consequences, indicates a fruitful development of Newtonianism into probabilism. That Clairaut's principles stem from Newton rather than from the Cartesians is indicated by his retention of a delicate balance between the claims of mathematics (...)
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  • The Justification of Kepler's Ellipse.Brian S. Baigrie - 1990 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (4):633.
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  • Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, Before and After Newton's "Principia": an Essay on the Transformation of Scientific Problems.Brian S. Baigrie - 1987 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 18 (2):177.
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  • Keplerian astronomy after Kepler: Researches and problems.Wilbur Applebaum - 1996 - History of Science 34 (4):451-504.
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  • History, Discovery and Induction: Whewell on Kepler on the Orbit of Mars.A. Lugg - 1989 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116:283-298.
    Discussion of William Whewell on Kepler on the orbit of Mars. A paper in *An Intimate Relation*, a volume presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday.
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