Buchwald, Jed Z. (Editor)
Franklin, Allan D. (Editor)
Springer-Verlag
Physical Details: viii + 228 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English
Description On the soundness of scientific thinking about ideas that have ultimately turned out to be erroneous.
Chapter Buchwald, Jed Z.; Franklin, Allan (2005) Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 1).
Chapter Swerdlow, N. M. (2005) Ptolemy's Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 41).
Chapter Newman, William R.; Principe, Lawrence M. (2005) Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 73).
Chapter Shapiro, Alan E. (2005) Skating on the Edge: Newton's Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 99).
Chapter Chen, Xiang (2005) Visual Photometry in the Early 19th Century: A “Good” Science with “Wrong” Measurements. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 161).
Chapter Buchwald, Jed Z. (2005) An Error within a Mistake?. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 185).
Chapter Jones, Alexander (2005) “In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates…to make them fit some predetermined amount”. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 17).
Chapter Grene, Marjorie (2005) Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovation. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 91).
Chapter Smith, George E. (2005) Was Wrong Newton Bad Newton?. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 127).
Chapter Franklin, Allan (2005) The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of β Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation. In: Wrong for the Right Reasons (p. 209).
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