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Wrong for the Right Reasons

Wrong for the Right Reasons

Paperback

Series: Archimedes, Book 11

PhilosophyAstronomy & SpaceHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 9048167779
ISBN13: 9789048167777
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 22 2010
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
1. Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism; J. Buchwald, A. Franklin. 2. 'In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates... to make them fit some predetermined amount'; A. Jones. 3. Ptolemy's Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypothese; N. Swerdlow. 4. Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis; W.R. Newman, L.M. Principe. 5. Descartes and the Heart Beat; M. Grene. 6. Newton's Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses; A. Shapiro. 7. Wrong Science in Book 2 of Newton's Principia; G. Smith. 8. Photometry in the Early 19th Century; X. Chen. 9. An Error Within a Mistake; J. Buchwald. 10. The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of Beta Decay; A. Franklin.

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