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Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise Dynamics of Scientific Progress /

The objective of this book is to reconstruct historical episodes and experiments that have been important in scientific progress, and to explore the role played by controversies and rivalries among scientists. Although progress in science has been replete with controversies, scientists themselves ei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Niaz, Mansoor (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, 36
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions
  • Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos
  • Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions
  • Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley
  • Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr
  • Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft
  • Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan
  • Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington
  • Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons
  • Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm
  • Wave-Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger
  • Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments
  • Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera.