Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ moʁis maʁi dy.ɛm] ; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist mathematician historian and philosopher of science best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics elasticity and thermodynamics.
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birth date
1861-06-09
birth place
Paris
death date
1916-09-14
death place
Cabrespine
era
19th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118681141
influenced
Stephen Menn, John Worrall (philosopher), Stanley Jaki, Thomas Kuhn, Émile Jouguet
influenced by
Blaise Pascal, Ernst Mach, William John Macquorn Rankine
LCCN Id
n/79/128986
main interest
Epistemology, History of science, Physics, Philosophy of science
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