| Titel: | Newton's apple and other myths about science |
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| Mitwirkende: | Numbers, Ronald L. [HerausgeberIn]  |
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| | Kampourakis, Kostas [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Verf.angabe: | edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis |
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| Verlagsort: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England |
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| Verlag: | Harvard University Press |
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| Jahr: | 2015 |
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| Umfang: | XIV, 287 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| Ang. zum Inhalt: | Medieval and early modern scienceThat there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Michael H. Shank |
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| | That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack |
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| | That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Michael N. Keas |
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| | That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Lawrence M. Principe |
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| | That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / John L. Heilbron |
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| | That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Patricia Fara |
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| | Nineteenth century ; That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg |
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| | That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Adam R. Shapiro |
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| | That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Julie Newell |
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| | That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr |
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| | That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Robert J. Richards |
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| | That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Michael Ruse |
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| | That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Nicolaas Rupke |
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| | That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Erika Lorraine Milam |
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| | That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Garland E. Allen |
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| | That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Kostas Kampourakis |
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| | That "social Darwinism" has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in America / Ronald L. Numbers |
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| | Twentieth century ; That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Theodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu |
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| | That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Mansoor Niaz |
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| | That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / David J. Depew |
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| | That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by ; Natural selection / David W. Rudge |
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| | That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Bruno J. Strasser |
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| | That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science ; Education / John L. Rudolph |
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| | Generalizations ; That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Peter Harrison |
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| | That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Kathryn M. Olesko |
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| | That the "scientific method" accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Daniel P. Thurs |
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| | That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin. |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-674-96798-4 |
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| Abstract: | Medieval and early modern science -- That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Michael H. Shank -- That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack -- That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Michael N. Keas -- That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Lawrence M. Principe -- That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / John L. Heilbron -- That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Patricia Fara -- Nineteenth century -- That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg -- That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Adam R. Shapiro -- That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Julie Newell -- That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr -- That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Robert J. Richards -- That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Michael Ruse -- That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Nicolaas Rupke -- That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Erika Lorraine Milam -- That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Garland E. Allen -- That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Kostas Kampourakis -- That "social Darwinism" has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in America / Ronald L. Numbers -- Twentieth century -- That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Theodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu -- That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Mansoor Niaz -- That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / David J. Depew -- That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by -- Natural selection / David W. Rudge -- That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Bruno J. Strasser -- That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science -- Education / John L. Rudolph -- Generalizations -- That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Peter Harrison -- That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Kathryn M. Olesko -- That the "scientific method" accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Daniel P. Thurs -- That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin |
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| URL: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz454450877inh.htm |
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| Schlagwörter: | (s)Naturwissenschaften / (s)Vorurteil / (z)Geschichte |
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| | (s)Naturwissenschaften / (s)Vorurteil / (z)Geschichte |
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| Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe, De Gruyter: Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015. - Online-Ressource (XIV, 287 Seiten) |
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| RVK-Notation: | CC 3000 |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1618167812 |
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Newton's apple and other myths about science / Numbers, Ronald L. [HerausgeberIn]; 2015
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