Summary Of "The Experimental Method And Philosophy Of Physics" By Robert Blanché - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICSIntroductionSINCE THE RENAISSANCE, THE USE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD WAS CHARACTERISTIC OF SCIENCE. The changes that have occurred in modern science are related to a profound transformation in the way of looking at and questioning nature. THE GREEKS DID NOT USE THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD.
Certain philosophical systems (such as Pythagoras's and Plato's) tended towards mathematization. Others (such as Aristotle and the Stoics) were interested in nature, but despised mathematics. Despite this, the ancients knew how to make precise observations (their astronomy proves this). His system of nature takes into account the diversity of the empirical and is in accordance with naive experience.
IN THE MIDDLE AGES, SCIENTISTS INTERPRETED NATURE ACCORDING TO ARISTOTLE'S BOOKS. The criticism that the Aristotelians directed against Galileo's innovations focused on the use of mathematical abstraction, for not taking into account the richness of sensory experience. For the medievals, there was a radical separation between mathematics (dealing with ideal entities) and physics (dealing with real entities).