Scientific methods: conceptual and historical problems

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Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co. (1994)
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Seven essays explore issues of scientific methodology in various episodes of science from Newtonian physics of the 17th and 18th century to quantum mechanics in the 20th. Addressed to scholars of the history and philosophy of science, but also accessible to general readers. Annotation copyright Book

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Q174.8.S36 1994

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Xiang Chen.Experiment Appraisal
Experimental Skills and Experiment Appraisal.Xiang Chen
Laura J. Snyder.is Evidence Historical
Narrative Justification in Philosophy of Science: A Role for History.D. L. Holt
Inference to the Unobservable: Newton's Experimental Philosophy.Barbara L. Horan
D. Lynn Holt.Thomas Kuhn & Lynn Joy
6 Art and Science: The Method of Ruskin's Modern Painters Jonathan Smith.Jonathan Smith
Is Evidence Historical?Laura J. Snyder

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