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100 _aBrush, Stephen G.
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245 _aMaking 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge
260 _bOxford University Press
_c2015
_aOxford
300 _a531p
500 _aPart 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?
600 _aScience - Methodology - History - 20th Century
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600 _aScience - Methodology - History - 19th Century
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700 _aSegal, Ariel
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