Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 59:22-35 (2016)
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This paper examines the methodology used by Kepler to discover a quantitative law of refraction. The aim is to argue that this methodology follows a heuristic method based on the following two Pythagorean principles: (1) sameness is made known by sameness, and (2) harmony arises from establishing a limit to what is unlimited. We will analyse some of the author's proposed analogies to find the aforementioned law and argue that the investigation's heuristic pursues such principles.

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10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.05.004

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