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Description

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.
Release date Australia
October 22nd, 2010
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by A Franklin
  • Edited by Jed Z Buchwald
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Illustrations
viii, 230 p.
Pages
230
Dimensions
156x234x12
ISBN-13
9789048167777
Product ID
8960874

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