Making 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge

By:

Brush, Stephen G

Contributor(s):

Segal, Ariel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University Press 2015 OxfordDescription: 531pISBN:

9780199978151

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DDC classification:

BRU 509.04

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Part I: The Reception and Evaluation of Theories in the Sciences
1. Who Needs the Scientific Method?
2. Reception Studies by Historians of Science
3. Prediction-Testing in the Evaluation of Theories: A Controversy in the Philosophy of Science
4. The Rise and Fall of Social Constructionism 1975-2000

Part II: Atoms, Molecules, and Particles
5. Mendeleev's Periodic Law
6. The Benzene Problem 1865-1930
7. The Light Quantum Hypothesis
8. Quantum Mechanics
9. New Particles
10. Benzene and Molecular Orbitals 1931-1980

Part III: Space and Time
11. Relativity
12. Big Bang Cosmology

Part IV: Heredity and Evolution
13. Morgan's Chromosome Theory
14. The Revival of Natural Selection 1930-1970

Part V: Conclusions
15. Which Works Faster: Prediction or Explanation?

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