Wrong for the Right Reasons
Author:   Jed Z Buchwald ,  A Franklin
Publisher:   Springer
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9789048101672


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 September 2008
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Wrong for the Right Reasons


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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.

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Author:   Jed Z Buchwald ,  A Franklin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9789048101672


ISBN 10:   9048101670
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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