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In this chapter a selection of episodes from the history of physics, beginning with Aristotle’s physics, are described. The aim is to give a historical background to the philosophical discussions about space, time, matter, force, etc.
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I will discuss this episode in the history of physics in more detail in Chap. 10.
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Johansson, LG. (2021). Some Important Episodes in the History of Physics. In: Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics. Synthese Library, vol 434. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64953-1_2
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