"There is, indeed, nothing surprising in this necessity for a hypothesis to assist us in the comprehension of laws. It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science, has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historic evolution. In the teaching of astronomy, for example, we may, to a certain point, follow step by step the ascending road of induction, because that science itself travelled over the same road in its history, Kepler’s laws having, indeed, been discovered before they were interpreted and bound together in a single conception by the theory of gravitation."
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S. Cannizzaro, Considerations on some Points of the Theoretic Teaching of Chemistry, J. Chem. Soc., 25, 941-967 (1872).
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Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro (13 July 1826 – 10 May 1910) was an Italian chemist.
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