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  title info:
    title: Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise
    sub title: Dynamics of Scientific Progress
  name:
    name part: Niaz, Mansoor.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 216 p. online resource.
  abstract: The objective of this book is to reconstruct historical episodes and experiments that have been important in scientific progress, and to explore the role played by controversies and rivalries among scientists. Although progress in science has been replete with controversies, scientists themselves either ignore or simply downplay their role. Such presentations lack the appreciation of the dynamics of ‘science-in-the-making’. This book provides methodological guidelines - based on a historical perspective of philosophy of science- that facilitate an understanding of historical episodes beyond that of inductive generalizations. These guidelines suggest that progress in science is not merely based on the accumulation of experimental data, but rather dependent on the creative imagination of the scientific community. This work shows that interpretation of experimental data is difficult and inevitably leads to alternative models/theories thus facilitating the understanding of science as a human enterprise.
  table of contents: Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions -- Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos -- Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions -- Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley -- Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr -- Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft -- Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan -- Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington -- Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons -- Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm -- Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger -- Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments -- Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera.
  note: by Mansoor Niaz.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Science education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Science Education
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: LB5-3640
  classification: 371.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science & Technology Education Library, 36
  identifier: 9781402096266
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9626-6
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    record change date: 20151204190946.0
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