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\bibitem{Bradley:bio}
A.F.O'D. ALEXANDER.
\newblock {J}ames {B}radley.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em Dictionary of {S}cientific
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\bibitem{Aristotle:Nicomachean}
ARISTOTLE.
\newblock {Nicomachean Ethics}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
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\newblock Translated by W.D. Ross with revision by J.O. Urmson.

\bibitem{Aristotle:heaven}
ARISTOTLE.
\newblock {On the Heavens}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
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\newblock Translated by J.L. Stocks.

\bibitem{Aristotle:soul}
ARISTOTLE.
\newblock {On the Soul}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
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  University Press}, Princeton, 1984.
\newblock Translated by J.A. Smith.

\bibitem{Aristotle:sense}
ARISTOTLE.
\newblock {Sense and Sensibilia}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
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  University Press}, Princeton, 1984.
\newblock Translated by J.I. Beare.

\bibitem{Bacon:Novum}
FRANCIS BACON.
\newblock Novum organum.
\newblock In Peter Urbach and John Gibson, editors, {\em Novum Organum: With
  Other Parts of the Great Instauration}, pages 33--293. Open Court, Chicago,
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\newblock 1994 translation.

\bibitem{Barnett:comparative}
VIC BARNETT.
\newblock {\em Comparative Statistical Inference: Second Edition}.
\newblock John Wiley \& Sons, New York, 1982.

\bibitem{Beeckman:1629}
ISAAC BEECKMAN.
\newblock {folio 340, 19 March 1629}.
\newblock In Christopher de~Waard, editor, {\em {Journal tenu par Isaac
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\bibitem{metre:def}
BIPM.
\newblock {\em Comptes Rendus des s\'{e}ances de la $17^e$ CGPM}.
\newblock BIPM, S\`{e}vres France, 1983.

\bibitem{Box:science}
G.E.P. BOX.
\newblock Science and statistics.
\newblock {\em Journal of the American Statistical Association}, 71:791 -- 799,
  1976.

\bibitem{Chatfield:prob}
CHRIS CHATFIELD.
\newblock {\em Problem Solving. A Statistician's Guide (second edition)}.
\newblock Chapman and Hall, London, 1995.

\bibitem{cohen:1940}
I.B. COHEN.
\newblock Roemer and the first determination of the velocity of light.
\newblock {\em Isis}, 31:327 -- 379, 1940.

\bibitem{nauthist:1968}
CHARLES~H. COTTER.
\newblock {\em A History of Nautical Astronomy}.
\newblock American Elsevier, New York, 1968.

\bibitem{Deming:1953}
W.~EDWARDS DEMING.
\newblock On the distinction between enumerative and analytic surveys.
\newblock {\em J. Amer Statist. Assoc.}, 48:244--255, 1953.

\bibitem{Drake:sci-bio}
STILLMAN DRAKE.
\newblock {\em Galileo at Work:His Scientific Biography}.
\newblock University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1978.

\bibitem{Durbin:pres-rss}
J.~DURBIN.
\newblock Statistics and statistical science.
\newblock {\em Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A}, 150:pp. 177--191,
  1987.

\bibitem{edge:methods}
F.Y EDGEWORTH.
\newblock Methods of statistics.
\newblock {\em Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee of the Royal Statistical
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\bibitem{Feyerabend:method}
PAUL FEYERABEND.
\newblock {\em Against Method}.
\newblock Verso of New Left Books, New York, 1988.
\newblock (Revised Edition).

\bibitem{Fisher:methods}
R.A. FISHER.
\newblock {\em {Statistical Methods for Research Workers}}.
\newblock Oliver \& Boyd, Edinburgh, 1925.
\newblock {Thirteenth edition, 1958}.

\bibitem{Galileo:starry}
GALILEO GALILEI.
\newblock {The Starry Messenger}.
\newblock In Stillman Drake, editor, {\em {Discoveries And Opinions of
  Galileo}}, pages 21--58. {Anchor Books, Doubleday}, New York, 1610.
\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Galileo:duchess}
GALILEO GALILEI.
\newblock {Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine Grand Duchess of Tuscany}
  concerning the use of {Biblical} quotations in matters of {Science}.
\newblock In Stillman Drake, editor, {\em {Discoveries And Opinions of
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\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Galileo:1638}
GALILEO GALILEI.
\newblock {\em Two New Sciences Including Centers of Gravity and Force of
  Percussion}.
\newblock The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1638.
\newblock Translated, with introduction and notes, by Stillman Drake, 1974.

\bibitem{Drake:disc}
GALILEO GALILEI.
\newblock {\em Discoveries and Opinions of {G}alileo}.
\newblock Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York, 1957.
\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Gaukroger:Descartes}
STEPHEN GAUKROGER.
\newblock {\em Descartes: An Intellectual Biography}.
\newblock Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

\bibitem{Good:science}
I.J. GOOD.
\newblock {Scientific Method and Statistics}.
\newblock In {S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson}, editor, {\em {Encyclopedia of
  Statistical Sciences}}, volume~8, pages 291 -- 304. John Wiley \& Sons, New
  York, 1988.

\bibitem{Hacking:phil}
IAN HACKING.
\newblock {\em Representing and Intervening: Introductory topics in the
  philosophy of natural science}.
\newblock Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.

\bibitem{HahnandMeeker:1993}
G.J. HAHN and W.Q. MEEKER.
\newblock Assumptions for statistical inference.
\newblock {\em The American Statistician}, 47:1--11, 1993.

\bibitem{Hand:decon}
DAVID.~J. HAND.
\newblock Deconstructing statistical questions.
\newblock {\em J.R. Statist. Soc. A}, 157, 1994.

\bibitem{Hume:treatise}
DAVID HUME.
\newblock {\em A Treatise on Human Nature}.
\newblock Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1739-1740.
\newblock {Analytical Index by L.A. Selby-Bigge, 1888; Second edition, 1978,
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\bibitem{kendall:vol1}
M.G. KENDALL and A.~STUART.
\newblock {\em The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Volume 1, Distribution
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\newblock Charles Griffin \& Company, London, 1958.
\newblock {First published in 1943, revised in 1958 with A. Stuart.}

\bibitem{Romer:bio}
ZDENE\v{E}K KOBAL.
\newblock {Ole Christensen R\"omer}.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em {Dictionary of Scientific Biography:
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\bibitem{Kuhn:rev}
T.S. KUHN.
\newblock {\em {The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}}.
\newblock Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1962.
\newblock {Second edition, 1970}.

\bibitem{Lakatos:meth}
IMRE LAKATOS.
\newblock {Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research
  Programmes}.
\newblock In John Worrall and Gregory Currie, editors, {\em {The methodology of
  scientific research programmes: Philosophical Papers Volume I}}, pages 8 --
  101. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978.
\newblock {First published in 1970}.

\bibitem{Lindberg:medieval}
DAVID~C. LINDBERG.
\newblock {Medieval Latin Theories of the Speed of Light}.
\newblock In Ren\'{e} Taton, editor, {\em {Roemer et la Vitesse de la
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\bibitem{Losee:intro}
JOHN LOSEE.
\newblock {\em {A historical introduction to the Philosophy of Science}}.
\newblock Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993.
\newblock {Third Edition}.

\bibitem{Madden:methods}
EDWARD~H. MADDEN, editor.
\newblock {\em Theories of Scientific Method: The Renaissance through the
  Nineteenth Century}.
\newblock University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1966.

\bibitem{MichMorl:1887}
A.A. MICHELSON AND E.W. MORLEY.
\newblock The motion of the earth relative to the luminiferous ether.
\newblock {\em American Journal of Science}, 34:333ff, 1887.

\bibitem{aamich:1880}
ALBERT~A. MICHELSON.
\newblock Experimental determination of the velocity of light made at the {U.S.
  Naval Academy, Annapolis}.
\newblock {\em Astronomical Papers}, 1:109--145, 1880.

\bibitem{aamich:vacuum}
ALBERT~A. MICHELSON, FRANCIS~G. PEASE, AND JULIUS PEARSON.
\newblock Measurement of the velocity of light in a partial vacuum.
\newblock {\em Astrophysics Journal}, 82:26--61, 1935.

\bibitem{MooreMcCabe:text}
DAVID MOORE AND GEORGE MCCABE.
\newblock {\em {Introduction to the Practice of Statistics}}.
\newblock W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1993.
\newblock {Second edition}.

\bibitem{Nelder:pres-rss}
J.A. NELDER.
\newblock Statistics, science and technology.
\newblock {\em Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A}, 149:pp. 109--121,
  1986.

\bibitem{Newcomb:1882}
SIMON NEWCOMB.
\newblock Measures of the velocity of light made under the direction of the
  {Secretary of the Navy} during the years 1880-'82.
\newblock {\em Astronomical Papers}, 3:107--239, 1882.

\bibitem{pearson:grammar}
KARL PEARSON.
\newblock {\em {The Grammar of Science}}.
\newblock Meridian Books, New York, 1911.
\newblock {First published in 1892, revised 1900, final edition in 1911.
  Reprinted in 1957 with introduction by Ernest Nagel.}

\bibitem{Popper:logic}
KARL~R. POPPER.
\newblock {\em The Logic of Scientific Discovery}.
\newblock Basic Books, New York, 1959.
\newblock {First English edition; original German edition published 1934.}

\bibitem{Descartes:speed}
SPYROS SAKELLARIADIS.
\newblock Descartes' experimental proof of the infinite velocity of light and
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\newblock {\em Archive for History of Exact Sciences}, 26:1 -- 12, 1982.

\bibitem{sobel:long}
DAVA SOBEL.
\newblock {\em Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the
  Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time}.
\newblock Walker and Company, New York, 1995.

\bibitem{Stigler:robust}
STEPHEN~M. STIGLER.
\newblock Do robust estimators work with {REAL} data? (with discussion).
\newblock {\em Annals of Statistics}, 5:1055--1098, 1977.

\bibitem{stig:hist}
STEPHEN~M. STIGLER.
\newblock {\em The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before
  1900}.
\newblock Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1986.

\bibitem{swenson:1972}
LOYD~S. {SWENSON JR.}
\newblock {\em The Ethereal Aether: A History of the {Michelson-Morley-Miller}
  Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930}.
\newblock University of Texas Press, Austin Texas, 1972.

\bibitem{Cassini:bio}
REN\'{E} TATON.
\newblock {Gian Domenico Cassini}.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em {Dictionary of Scientific Biography:
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\bibitem{Tukey:both}
J.W. TUKEY.
\newblock We need both exploratory and confirmatory.
\newblock {\em The American Statistician}, 34:23--25, 1980.
\newblock {Reproduced in Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Tukey.}

\bibitem{Wheeler:meas}
DONALD~J. WHEELER AND RICHARD~W. LYDAY.
\newblock {\em Evaluating the Measurement Process}.
\newblock SPC Press Inc., Knoxville, TN, 1989.

\bibitem{Wild:isi}
C.J. WILD and M.~PFANNKUCH.
\newblock Statistical thinking in empirical enquiry.
\newblock {\em International Statistical Review}, 67:223 -- 248, 1999.

\bibitem{Youden:meas}
W.J. YOUDEN.
\newblock {\em Experimentation and Measurement}.
\newblock National Science Teachers' Association, Washington, 1985.

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