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Title Newton's apple and other myths about science / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv 287 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Medieval and early modern science -- Myth 1. That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Michael H. Shank -- Myth 2. That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack -- Myth 3. That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Michael N. Keas -- Myth 4. That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Lawrence M. Principe -- Myth 5. That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / John L. Heilbron -- Myth 6. That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Patricia Fara -- Nineteenth century -- Myth 7. That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg -- Myth 8. That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Adam R. Shapiro -- Myth 9. That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Julie Newell -- Myth 10. That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr -- Myth 11. That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Robert J. Richards -- Myth 12. That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Michael Ruse -- Myth 13. That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Nicolaas Rupke -- Myth 14. That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Erika Lorraine Milam -- Myth 15. That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Garland E. Allen -- Myth 16. That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Kostas Kampourakis -- Myth 17. That "social Darwinism" has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in the United States of America / Ronald L. Numbers -- Twentieth century -- Myth 18. That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Theodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu -- Myth 19. That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Mansoor Niaz -- Myth 20. That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / David J. Depew -- Myth 21. That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by natural selection / David W. Rudge -- Myth 22. That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Bruno J. Strasser -- Myth 23. That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science -- Education / John L. Rudolph -- Generalizations -- Myth 24. That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Peter Harrison -- Myth 25. That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Kathryn M. Olesko -- Myth 26. That the "scientific method" accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Daniel P. Thurs -- Myth 27. That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin.
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Subject Science -- Public opinion -- Popular works.
Science -- Public opinion.
Genre/Form Popular works.
Subject Science.
Science -- History -- Popular works.
History.
Discoveries in science -- History -- Popular works.
Discoveries in science.
Science -- Methodology -- Popular works.
Science -- Methodology.
Errors, Scientific -- Popular works.
Errors, Scientific.
Errors, Scientific -- History -- Popular works.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Numbers, Ronald L., editor.
Kampourakis, Kostas, editor.
ISBN 9780674089167 (electronic book)
0674089162 (electronic book)
0674967984
9780674967984