Overview
- Gives detailed examples of past science that is wrong in retrospect, but nevertheless fits canons of good work
- Considers issues regarding error in science through a bottom-up view instead of from the top-down
- Provides examples ranging from ancient astronomy through 17th century biology to modern physics
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wrong for the Right Reasons
Editors: Jed Z. Buchwald, Allan Franklin
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3047-5Published: 27 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6777-7Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3048-2Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 230
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Philosophy of Technology