书目名称 | Wrong for the Right Reasons |
编辑 | Jed Z. Buchwald,Allan Franklin |
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概述 | Gives detailed examples of past science that is wrong in retrospect, but nevertheless fits canons of good work.Considers issues regarding error in science through a bottom-up view instead of from the |
丛书名称 | Archimedes |
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描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2005 |
关键词 | Isaac Newton; alchemy; calculus; photometry; planet; science |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6777-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-3048-2Series ISSN 1385-0180 Series E-ISSN 2215-0064 |
issn_series | 1385-0180 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005 |