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PROF. BURTT has given us a study of the history of modern science from an unusual but very important point of view. He has sought to lay bare the principle underlying and directing scientific discovery rather than to chronicle the discoveries in their objective and practical aspect. He finds that the metaphysic of science when it is laid bare is neither self-evident nor consistent, but in fact highly paradoxical. In his concluding chapter he invites men of science and philosophers to study this metaphysic critically with a view to its fundamental reformation. It is the metaphysics of Newton:
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: a Historical and Critical Essay.
By Prof. Edwin Arthur Burtt. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. ix+349. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1925.) 14s. net.
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CARR, H. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: a Historical and Critical Essay . Nature 116, 235–236 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116235a0
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