Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise Dynamics of Scientific Progress /

• Main Author: Niaz, Mansoor (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Science & Technology Education Library, 36
• Subjects: Education.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Science education.; Learning & Instruction.; Science Education.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.

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 ei...