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In what follows I hope to discuss ideas of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton; in each case only very few observations can be made; yet I hope that what will be said will be adequate to explain what I have in mind: to show that the scientific praxis as a whole is inherently hermeneutical, and the same is true for all its constitutive aspects.1
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Kockelmans, J.J. (2002). Reflections on the Origin of Modern Physics: 16th and 17th Centuries: From Copernicus to Newton. In: Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0379-7_2
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