| Description |
xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Themata in scientific thought -- Subelectrons, presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute -- Dionysians, Appollonians, and the scientific imagination -- Analysis and synthesis as methodological themata -- Fermi's group and the recapture of Italy's place in physics -- Can science be measured? -- On the psychology of scientists, and their social concertns -- Lewis Mumford on science, technology, and life -- Frank E. Manuel's Isaac Newton -- Ronald Clark and Albert Einstein -- On the educational philosophy of the project physics course. |
| Subject |
Science -- Methodology -- Case studies.
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Science -- Methodology. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Physics -- History -- Sources.
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Physics. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
Ciencia. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Física -- Historia -- Fuentes
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| ISBN |
0521217008 0521292379 (paperback) |
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