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Ideas of Andreas Osiander, by Text

[German, 1498 - 1552, Lutheran theologian.]

1543	Preface to 'De Revolutionibus'

p.119

15282

Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Harré/Madden]