Henry Cavendish's deduction of the electrostatic inverse square law from the result of a single experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10798609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Dorling (0000-0002-1691-3221) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 327-348 |
| Publication date | 1974-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3681 • E-ISSN: 1879-2510 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0039-3681(74)90008-9 |
| OpenAlex | W1971901285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 5 |
Calculus (dental · Classical mechanics · Geometry · Inverse · Inverse-square law · Linguistics · Mathematical economics · Physics · Square (algebra · Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation
Hesse’s Condition for Transitivity of Probabilistic Support
Demonstrative Induction
No actual measurement … was required
Demonstrative induction, old and new evidence and the accuracy of the electrostatic inverse square law
What Demonstrative Induction Can Do Against the Threat of Underdetermination
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning
Conceptual and experimental bases of Faraday's denial of electrostatic action at a distance
Bayesianism and scientific inference
Between the Fundamental and the Phenomenological
Beyond Divorce
The Scope, Limits, and Distinctiveness of the Method of 'Deduction from the Phenomena
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2025 (53) |
| Highly cited | No |