- Tytuł pełny:
- Newton's apple and other myths about science / edited by Ronald L. Numbers, Kostas Kampourakis
- Współtwórcy:
- Numbers, Ronald L. (1942-2023) . Redaktor
Kampourakis, Kostas. Redaktor
Harvard University Press. Wydawca - Wydawca:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press
- Rok wydania:
- [2015]
- ISBN:
- 9780674089167
- Zawartość:
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Medieval and Early Modern Science -- Myth 1. That There Was No Scientific Activity between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution -- Myth 2. That before Columbus, Geographers and Other Educated People Thought the Earth Was Flat -- Myth 3. That the Copernican Revolution Demoted the Status of the Earth -- Myth 4. That Alchemy and Astrology Were Superstitious Pursuits That Did Not Contribute to Science and Scientific Understanding -- Myth 5. That Galileo Publicly Refuted Aristotle’s Conclusions about Motion by Repeated Experiments Made from the Campanile of Pisa -- Myth 6. That the Apple Fell and Newton Invented the Law of Gravity, Thus Removing God from the Cosmos -- II. Nineteenth Century -- Myth 7. That Friedrich Wöhler’s Synthesis of Urea in 1828 Destroyed Vitalism and Gave Rise to Organic Chemistry -- Myth 8. That William Paley Raised Scientific Questions about Biological Origins That Were Eventually Answered by Charles Darwin -- Myth 9. That Nineteenth- Century Geologists Were Divided into Opposing Camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians -- Myth 10. That Lamarckian Evolution Relied Largely on Use and Disuse and That Darwin Rejected Lamarckian Mechanisms -- Myth 11. That Darwin Worked on His Theory in Secret for Twenty Years, His Fears Causing Him to Delay Publication -- Myth 12. That Wallace’s and Darwin’s Explanations of Evolution Were Virtually the Same -- Myth 13. That Darwinian Natural Selection Has Been “the Only Game in Town” -- Myth 14. That after Darwin (1871), Sexual Selection Was Largely Ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) Resurrected the Theory -- Myth 15. That Louis Pasteur Disproved Spontaneous Generation on the Basis of Scientific Objectivity -- Myth 16. That Gregor Mendel Was a Lonely Pioneer of Genetics, Being Ahead of His Time -- Myth 17. That Social Darwinism Has Had a Profound Influence on Social Thought and Policy, Especially in the United States of America -- III. Twentieth Century -- Myth 18. That the Michelson- Morley Experiment Paved the Way for the Special Theory of Relativity -- Myth 19. That the Millikan Oil- Drop Experiment Was Simple and Straightforward -- Myth 20. That Neo- Darwinism Defines Evolution as Random Mutation Plus Natural Selection -- Myth 21. That Melanism in Peppered Moths Is Not a Genuine Example of Evolution by Natural Selection -- Myth 22. That Linus Pauling’s Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Sickle- Cell Anemia Revolutionized Medical Practice -- Myth 23. That the Soviet Launch of Sputnik Caused the Revamping of American Science Education -- IV. Generalizations -- Myth 24. That Religion Has Typically Impeded the Progress of Science -- Myth 25. That Science Has Been Largely a Solitary Enterprise -- Myth 26. That the Scientific Method Accurately Reflects What Scientists Actually Do -- Myth 27. That a Clear Line of Demarcation Has Separated Science from Pseudoscience -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
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