Debunks the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience 'Eureka!' moments and suddenly comprehend what those around them could never imagine. Science has always been a cooperative enterprise of dedicated, fallible human beings, for whom context, collaboration, and sheer good luck are the essential elements of discovery.
...MoreReview Nick Spicher (2017) Review of "Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 349-352).
Essay Review Christopher Hamlin (2017) You Say “Myth” Like It’s a Bad Thing. Science and Education (pp. 191-193).
Chapter David J. Depew (2015) That Neo-Darwinism Defines Evolution as Random Mutation Plus Natural Selection. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 164-170).
Chapter Daniel P. Thurs (2015) That the Scientific Method Accurately Reflects What Scientists Actually Do. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 219-226).
Chapter Lawrence M. Principe (2015) That Alchemy and Astrology Were Superstitious Pursuits That Did Not Contribute to Science and Scientific Understanding. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 32-39).
Chapter Robert J. Richards (2015) That Darwin Worked on His Theory in Secret for Twenty Years, His Fears Causing Him to Delay Publication. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 88-95).
Chapter Peter Harrison (2015) That Religion Has Typically Impeded the Progress of Science. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 195-201).
Chapter Burkhardt, Richard W., Jr. (2015) That Lamarckian Evolution Relied Largely on Use and Disuse and That Darwin Rejected Lamarckian Mechanisms. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 80-87).
Chapter John L. Heilbron (2015) That Galileo Publicly Refuted Aristotle's Conclusions About Motion by Repeated Experiments Made from the Campanile of Pisa. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 40-47).
Chapter Ronald L. Numbers (2015) That Social Darwinism Has Had a Profound Influence on Social Thought and Policy, Especially in the United States of America. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 139-148).
Chapter Julie Newell (2015) That Nineteenth-Century Geologists Were Divided into Opposing Camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 74-79).
Chapter Kostas Kampourakis (2015) That Gregor Mendel Was a Lonely Pioneer of Genetics, Being Ahead of His Time. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 129-138).
Chapter Michael H. Shank (2015) That There Was No Scientific Activity Between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 7-15).
Chapter Peter J. Ramberg (2015) That Friedrich Wohler's Synthesis of Urea in 1828 Destroyed Vitalism and Gave Rise to Organic Chemistry. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 59-66).
Chapter Mansoor Niaz (2015) That the Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment Was Simple and Straightforward. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 157-163).
Chapter Nicolaas Rupke (2015) That Darwinian Natural Selection Has Been "the Only Game in Town". In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 103-111).
Chapter Erika Lorraine Milam (2015) That After Darwin (1871), Sexual Selection Was Largely Ignored Until Robert Trivers (1972) Resurrected the Theory. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 112-118).
Chapter Adam R. Shapiro (2015) That William Paley Raised Scientific Questions About Biological Origins That Were Eventually Answered by Charles Darwin. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 67-73).
Chapter Michael D. Gordin (2015) That a Clear Line of Demarcation Has Separated Science from Pseudoscience. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 171-177).
Chapter Lesley B. Cormack (2015) That Before Columbus, Geographers and Other Educated People Thought the Earth Was Flat. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 16-22).
Chapter John L. Rudolph (2015) That the Soviet Launch of Sputnik Caused the Revamping of American Science Education. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 186-194).
Chapter Garland E. Allen (2015) That Louis Pasteur Disproved Spontaneous Generation on the Basis of Scientific Objectivity. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 119-128).
Chapter Patricia Fara (2015) That the Apple Fell and Newton Invented the Law of Gravity, Thus Removing God from the Cosmos. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 48-58).
Chapter Kathryn M. Olesko (2015) That Science Has Been Largely a Solitary Enterprise. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 210-218).
Chapter Michael N. Keas (2015) That the Copernican Revolution Demoted the Status of the Earth. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 23-31).
Chapter David W. Rudge (2015) That Melanism in Peppered Moths Is Not a Genuine Example of Evolution by Natural Selection. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 202-209).
Chapter Bruno J. Strasser (2015) That Linus Pauling's Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Sickle-Cell Anemia Revolutionized Medical Practice. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 178-185).
Chapter Theodore Arabatzis; Kostas Gavroglu (2015) That the Michelson-Morley Experiment Paved the Way for the Special Theory of Relativity. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 149-156).
Chapter Michael Ruse (2015) That Wallace's and Darwin's Explanations of Evolution Were Virtually the Same. In: Newton's Apple and Other Myths About Science (pp. 96-102).
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