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Wrong for the Right Reasons -

Wrong for the Right Reasons

Jed Z. Buchwald, A. Franklin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6777-7 (ISBN)
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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.

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.

Reihe/Serie Archimedes ; 11
Zusatzinfo VIII, 230 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 90-481-6777-9 / 9048167779
ISBN-13 978-90-481-6777-7 / 9789048167777
Zustand Neuware
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