Why There Was a Useful Plausible Analogy between Geodesic Domes and Spherical Viruses (2006)
In 1962, Donald Caspar and Aaron Klug published their classic theory of virus structure. They developed their theory with an explicit analogy between spherical viruses and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. In this paper, I use the spherical virusgeodesic dome case to develop an account of analogy and deductive analogical inference based on the notion of an isomorphism. I also consider under what conditions there is a good reason to claim an experimentally untested analogy is plausible. KEYWORDS -- Context of Discovery, Spherical Virus, Geodesic Dome, Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus, Quasi-equivalence, Buckminster Fuller, Aaron Klug, Donald Caspar, Francis Crick, James Watson, Isomorphism, Analogical Reasoning, History of Structural Biology, Philosophy of Biology
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