Wrong for the Right Reasons
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?...
Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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Other Authors: | Buchwald, Jed Z. (Editor), Franklin, Allan (Editor) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2005.
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Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
11 |
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Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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