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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?...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Colección: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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