Resumo

GUILLAUMIN, Godfrey. De las cualidades a las magnitudes: medición científica como integración cognitiva en el surgimiento de la astronomía moderna. Sig. Fil [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.28, pp.57-89. ISSN 1665-1324.

Measurement has been the main cognitive resource through which science has obtained empirical information about the world. Scientific measurement is not a fixed process but an historical and dynamical one; nevertheless, almost all philosophical analysis have studied it from a formal point of view. My aim in this paper is to outline a cognitive and historical notion of scientific measurement that allows us to appreciate its diverse epistemic, methodological, and cognitive features.

Palavras-chave : modern science; cognitive integration; instruments; Kepler; Scientific measurement.