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(2017) Integrated history and philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Theorizing the distinction between solids, liquids and air
pressure from Stevin to Pascal
Alan F. Chalmers
pp. 55-67
Seventeenth-century scholars could take for granted distinctions between solids, liquids and air that were by no means novel. In this paper I explore the way in which these distinctions were gradually sharpened up, by way of experimentation and the theorising accompanying it, to the point where important beginnings of a theoretical grasp of the essential distinctions between the three states of matter was achieved.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53258-5_5
Full citation:
Chalmers, A. F. (2017)., Theorizing the distinction between solids, liquids and air: pressure from Stevin to Pascal, in F. Stadler (ed.), Integrated history and philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 55-67.
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