Jed Z. Buchwald,
A. Franklin
Wrong for the Right Reasons
Paperback Engels 2010 9789048167777
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Samenvatting
The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9789048167777
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:230
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:0
Serie:Archimedes
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Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism; J. Buchwald, A. Franklin.
2. 'In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates... to make them fit some predetermined amount'; A. Jones.
3. Ptolemy's Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypothese; N. Swerdlow.
4. Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis; W.R. Newman, L.M. Principe.
5. Descartes and the Heart Beat; M. Grene.
6. Newton's Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses; A. Shapiro.
7. Wrong Science in Book 2 of Newton's Principia; G. Smith.
8. Photometry in the Early 19th Century; X. Chen.
9. An Error Within a Mistake; J. Buchwald.
10. The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of Beta Decay; A. Franklin.
2. 'In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates... to make them fit some predetermined amount'; A. Jones.
3. Ptolemy's Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypothese; N. Swerdlow.
4. Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis; W.R. Newman, L.M. Principe.
5. Descartes and the Heart Beat; M. Grene.
6. Newton's Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses; A. Shapiro.
7. Wrong Science in Book 2 of Newton's Principia; G. Smith.
8. Photometry in the Early 19th Century; X. Chen.
9. An Error Within a Mistake; J. Buchwald.
10. The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of Beta Decay; A. Franklin.
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