Sterrett, Susan (2009) Historical Context and Philosophy of Science: Reply to Peter Simons' 'Coincidence and Kite-Flying'. [Preprint]
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Abstract
This essay responds to a review of my book Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World by Peter Simons that appears in the March 2009 issue of the journal Metascience.
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| Keywords: | Wittgenstein, physical similarity, physically similar systems, Tractatus, model, scale model, dimensional analysis, dimensionless parameter |
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
| Depositing User: | Dr Susan G. Sterrett |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:17 |
| Item ID: | 4478 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4478 |
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