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Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy (2007)(en

By David R. Topper

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
9780387710181, 0387710183, 0387710191
Open Library ID
OL7447831M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2451950 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
218\218
Topic
Physics
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
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Description

These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein's stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. Copernicus and Galileo are found suppressing information. A theme running throughout the book is the notion that what is obvious today was not so in the past. Scientists seen in their historical context shatter myths and show them to be less modern than we often like to think of them.

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