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This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a "theory of everything" involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. The book emphasizes the importance of mathematical structures in unification, and claims that despite this common feature theory unification is a multi-faceted process for which no general account can be offered.

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In the Mysterium cosmographicum Johannes Kepler claimed that it was his intention to show that the celestial "machine" was not a kind of divine living being, but a kind of clockwork insofar as the multiplicity of motions depends on a single, quite simple magnetic and corporeal force, just as all the motions of a clock depend upon a simple weight.

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  • Title Unifying Scientific Theories: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures
  • Author Margaret Morrison
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, NY:
  • Publication date 2000-01-28
  • ISBN 9780521652162 / 0521652162
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.24 x 0.89 in (23.77 x 15.85 x 2.26 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Unified field theories
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99020874
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.142

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