Method and appraisal in the physical sciences : the critical background to modern science, 1800-1905 /

Method and appraisal in the physical sciences : the critical background to modern science, 1800-1905 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Howson, Colin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Subjects:
Science > Methodology.
Science > History.
Science > history.
Table of Contents:
  • Lakatos, I. History of science and its rational reconstructions
  • Clark, P. Atomism vs. thermodynamics
  • Worrall, J. Thomas Young and the "rufutation" of Newtonian optics
  • Musgrave, A. Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston?--Zahar, E. Why did Einstein's programme supersede Lorentz's?--Fricke, M. The rejection of Avogadro's hypotheses
  • Feyerabend, P. On the critique of scientific reason.