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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Wrong for the Right Reasons
  name:
    name part: Buchwald, Jed Z.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Franklin, Allan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 230 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism -- “In Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates … to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amount” -- Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses -- Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis -- Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovation -- Skating on the Edge: Newton’s Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses -- Was Wrong Newton Bad Newton? -- Visual Photometry in the Early 19th Century: A “Good” Science with “Wrong” Measurements -- An Error within a Mistake? -- The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of ? Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation.
  note: edited by Jed Z. Buchwald, Allan Franklin.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 11
  identifier: 9781402030482
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180437.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-3048-2