Whilst Burtt, Strong and Randall completed their PhDs in Columbia's philosophy department, eventually becoming prominent members of the profession themselves, it is fair to admit that their names are nowadays primarily recognised among historians of Renaissance and early modern science (most commonly, among Galileo scholars). Burtt is remembered for his 1924 The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, arguing that developments in the natural sciences from Copernicus' De Revoluti...
