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I've just added this reference.Since " Saving the phenomena" redirects here (more importantly from the Pierre Duhem article), I think this topic should be expanded to a section of its own...
Thanatos| talk 23:16, 17 March 2012 (UTC) reply

"In Newton's theory there is a basic, fixed frame of reference that is inertial" — Surely not (this would contradict Galilean invariance). Inertial frames are special, but they are a continuum of frames, not a single one. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 18:56, 29 May 2014 (UTC) reply