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?...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Buchwald, Jed Z. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Franklin, A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 11
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!