Wrong for the Right Reasons
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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
Autor*in
Jed Z. Buchwald
Themen in »Wrong for the Right Reasons«
Isaac Newton alchemy calculus photometry planet science