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"Edited by Ronald Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis, Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science debunks the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience 'Eureka!' moments and suddenly comprehend what those around them could never imagine. Science has...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Edited by Ronald Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis, Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science debunks the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience 'Eureka!' moments and suddenly comprehend what those around them could never imagine. Science has always been a cooperative enterprise of dedicated, fallible human beings, for whom context, collaboration, and sheer good luck are the essential elements of discovery, "--Amazon.com. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-270) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674967984 0674967984 |
| Index Number: | Q172 |
| CLC: | N09-49 |
| Call Number: | N09-49/N567 |
| Contents: |
That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / That before Columbus, geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / That the Copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made fr |