| Wrong for the Right Reasons 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Buchwald, Jed Z. (Editor), Franklin, A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402030479 ISBN-13: 9781402030475 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Astronomy - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Philosophy | Reference |
| Dewey: 501 |
| LCCN: 2005299750 |
| Series: Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 230 pages |