Duhem, Pierre
Links
Pierre Duhem
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Duhem.html
Biography with extensive bibliography, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics. Compiled by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson.
The Passion of Pierre Duhem
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billramey/duhem.htm
Essay by Ernest Brown on Duhem's discovery of the medieval roots of general dynamics, and the conspiracy of silence which followed.
Pierre Duhem
http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/Notes/Duhem.html
Notes from David Huron's reading of this philosopher's The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory.
Motivational Realism: The Natural Classification for Pierre Duhem
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001061/
Paper from 2002 by Karen Merikangas Darling, addressing the conflict between realist and anti-realist readings of Duhem. Full text available in Microsoft Word format.
Pierre de Maricourt
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12079e.htm
Article on this 13th-century theorist of optics and magnetism, written by Duhem for the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Nicole Oresme
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11296a.htm
Article on this 14th-century critic of Aristotelianism, written by Duhem for the Catholic Encyclopedia.