Wrong for the right reasons
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?...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Serie: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Wrong for the right reasons, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Allan Franklin, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, 1 vol. (viii-228 p.), Archimedes, 1-402-03047-9 • Wrong for the Right Reasons, Texte imprimé, 9789048167777 • Wrong for the Right Reasons, Texte imprimé, 9789048101672 • Wrong for the right reasons, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Allan Franklin, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, 1 vol. (viii-228 p.), Archimedes, 1-402-03047-9 |
Sommario:
- Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism In Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amount Ptolemy s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovation Skating on the Edge: Newton s Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses Was Wrong Newton Bad Newton? Visual Photometry in the Early 19th Century: A Good Science with Wrong Measurements An Error within a Mistake? The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of ? Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation