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The analysis of scientific activities no longer escapes from the philosophy of language, which is interested in the figures of rhetoric, in vocabulary and even more so in the imaginary of sciences, be it within a context of discovery or of justification. It suffices to consult the most frequently used terms (electrical current, magnetic field, light wave, magnetic resonance) to be confronted with the ubiquity of metaphor and analogy.
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Gaston Bachelard. La formation de l’esprit scientifique, Paris, Vrin, 1947; Le Rationalisme appliqué, Paris, PUF, 1949.
Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena, IV, 4, in Gesammelte Werke (hereafter: G.W.), München, Beck, 1939, vol. II, p. 92.
Harmonice Mundi, IV, 7, G. W., vol. VI, p. 264.
Paralopimena, I, prop. 32, G.W., vol. II, p. 34. Cf. our analysis of this passage in Kepler astronome astrologue, Paris, Gallimard, 1979, p. 196.
Paralopimena, V, 3, prop. VIII-XVI.
Astronomia nova, IV, 57, G.W., vol. III, pp. 348–364; cf. Kepler astronome astrologue, p. 380.
Harmonice Mundi, V, 3, G. W., vol. VI, pp. 296–305.
Ibid., p. 302.
Ibid., IV, 10, pp. 363–368.
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Simon, G. (2000). Analogies and Metaphors in Kepler. In: Hallyn, F. (eds) Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences. Origins, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9442-4_5
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