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Empirical Support for the Corpuscular Theory in the Seventeenth Century

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the empirical content and experimental foundation of the early seventeenth-century corpuscular hypothesis. Supported by ontological, epistemological, and mathematical arguments, observational and experimental evidence played an important part in creating those patterns of thought that were instrumental in the transformation and, eventually, acceptance of the corpuscular theory of matter.

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Meinel, C. (1988). Empirical Support for the Corpuscular Theory in the Seventeenth Century. In: Batens, D., Van Bendegem, J.P. (eds) Theory and Experiment. Synthese Library, vol 195. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2875-6_5

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