[ Ernan McMullin (1990), “Conceptions of Science in the Scientific Revolution”, in D. Lindberg and R. Westmen (eds)(1990), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press), pp. 27-92. ]
1. Conceptions of science
1.1. Deductivism
1.2. Inductivism
1.3. Hypothetico-deductivism
2. Descartes: Precursor of the hypothetico-deductivism method?
3. Francis Bacon: Exemplar of inductivism
4. Bolye: The criteria of hypothesis
5. Kepler: Hypothesis of planetary motion
6. Galileo: Kinematics as science
7. Newton: Deducing from the phenomena
8. Locke: The twilight of probability
1. Conceptions of science
1.1. Deductivism
1.2. Inductivism
1.3. Hypothetico-deductivism
2. Descartes: Precursor of the hypothetico-deductivism method?
3. Francis Bacon: Exemplar of inductivism
4. Bolye: The criteria of hypothesis
5. Kepler: Hypothesis of planetary motion
6. Galileo: Kinematics as science
7. Newton: Deducing from the phenomena
8. Locke: The twilight of probability
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