Scientific Knowledge and Its Social ProblemsOxford University Press, 1973 - 449 páginas Analyses the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems, and demonstrates the role of choice and value-judgement, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. |
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... Galileo twice tried to sell his method of determining longitudes at sea by observation of the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter . The first attempt started in 1616 with Spain , and Galileo even offered to travel there to train ...
... Galileo twice tried to sell his method of determining longitudes at sea by observation of the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter . The first attempt started in 1616 with Spain , and Galileo even offered to travel there to train ...
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... Galileo was done by A. Koyré , Études Galiléennes ( Hermann , Paris , 1939 ) . Koyré even argued that Galileo could not have achieved the precision he claimed . But the doubts of Galileo's French contem- poraries which Koyré cites ( ii ...
... Galileo was done by A. Koyré , Études Galiléennes ( Hermann , Paris , 1939 ) . Koyré even argued that Galileo could not have achieved the precision he claimed . But the doubts of Galileo's French contem- poraries which Koyré cites ( ii ...
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... Galileo's mechanics for some years before he realized that he had quite misunderstood it . 12 The pitfalls in the handling of the objects of the differential calculus can easily be found in the early notes of Leibniz , and some remained ...
... Galileo's mechanics for some years before he realized that he had quite misunderstood it . 12 The pitfalls in the handling of the objects of the differential calculus can easily be found in the early notes of Leibniz , and some remained ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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