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In the history of modern physics the name of Ernst Mach has left two distinct marks, known as Mach number and Mach Principle.1 The former refers to Mach as an experimentalist, the second — as a philosopher of science and critic of Newton’s Principia. It is the second aspect that interests us in this paper.
Reprinted from Synthese 18 (1968) 251–84. [This article forms Part II of ‘Intertheory Relations’.]
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Strauss, M. (1972). Einstein’s Theories and the Critics of Newton — Intertheory Relations II. In: Modern Physics and its Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2893-6_15
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