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The following is a rational reconstruction of what must be admitted to have been a minor afternoon in the history of science. It tells of how a group of students came to make — were cajoled, goaded, induced to make — an utterly unoriginal scientific discovery. The discovery was however new to the students, and therein, somewhere, lies the point of the tale.
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Puri, A.K. (1993). Tales from the Classroom: The See-Saw. In: French, S., Kamminga, H. (eds) Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 148. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1185-2_8
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