Screen LibraryThe scientific imagination：case studies
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, [Eng.] New York |
| Publication Dates: | 1978. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 382 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521217008 0521292379 |
| Index Number: | G312 |
| CLC: | G312 |
| Call Number: | G312/H758/ |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Themata in scientific thought -- Subelectrons, presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute -- Dionysians, Appollonians, and the scientific imagination -- Analysis and synthesis as methodological themata -- Fermi's group and the recapture of Italy's place in physics -- Can science be measured? -- On the psychology of scientists, and their social concertns -- Lewis Mumford on science, technology, and life -- Frank E. Manuel's Isaac Newton -- Ronald Clark and Albert Einstein -- On the educational philosophy of the project physics course. |