TY  - BOOK
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ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Wrong for the Right Reasons
T2  - Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
SN  - 9781402030482
AV  - QC6.9 
U1  - 530.01 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Physics
KW  - Science (General)
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - History
KW  - History of Physics
KW  - Science, general
KW  - Philosophy of Technology
N1  - Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism -- ǣIn Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates Ǫ to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amountǥ -- Ptolemys Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses -- Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis -- Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovation -- Skating on the Edge: Newtons Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses -- Was Wrong Newton Bad Newton? -- Visual Photometry in the Early 19th Century: A ǣGoodǥ Science with ǣWrongǥ Measurements -- An Error within a Mistake? -- The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of ? Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation; ZDB-2-PHA
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7
ER  -