| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Tenacity and stubbornness: Einstein on theory and experiment -- Convergence or coincidence: ancient measurements of the sun and moon, how far? -- The rationality of simplicity: Copernicus on planetary motion -- A silence of scientists: Venus's brightness, Earth's precession, and the nebula in Orion -- Progress through error: stars and quasars, how big, how far? -- The data fit the model but the model is wrong: Kepler and the structure of the cosmos -- Art illustrates science: Galileo, a blemished moon, and a parabola of blood -- Ensnared in circles: Galileo and the law of projectile motion -- Aesthetics and holism: Newton on light, color, and music -- Missing one's own discovery: Newton and the first idea of an artificial satellite -- A change of mind: Newton and the comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681 -- A well-nigh discovery: Einstein and the expanding universe |
| Summary |
Provides historical narratives of scientific behavior that reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. Scientists include Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Copernicus and Galileo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Errors, Scientific.
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Physics -- Research -- History
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Astronomy -- Research -- History
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Astronomy
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astronomy.
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SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
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SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Physics -- Research -- History.
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Astronomy -- Research -- History.
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Errors, Scientific.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Astronomy -- Research
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Errors, Scientific
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Physics -- Research
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007925263 |
| ISBN |
9780387710198 |
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0387710191 |
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9780387710181 |
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0387710183 |
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1280969679 |
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9781280969676 |
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