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Mechanism of Theory Rejection (view source)
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For example, judicial astrology was removed from the Aristotelian-medieval community because it contradicts the idea of free will developed by Christian scientists. Theories like geocentrism were replaced by heliocentrism developed by scientists like Nicolaus Copernicus. Even further, by circa 1700, the entire Aristotelian system was replaced by Newtonian and Cartesian physics.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 210]]
Another typical example of theory rejection is the rejection of the phlogiston theory. The editors of [[Weisberg, Needham and Hendry (2016)|''Philosophy of Chemistry'']] stated that after Georg Ernst Stahl introduced the theory, the theory had undergone several modifications to make the existence of phlogiston plausible.[[CiteRef::Weisberg, Needham and Hendry (2016)]] However, during the Chemical Revolution, as Antoine Lavoisier reviewed several experimental results that contradict the existence of phlogiston, he removed phlogiston from the scientific mosaic at the time, in order to simplify those experimental results.[[CiteRef::Weisberg, Needham and Hendry (2016)]]
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
