Wrong for the Right Reasons

Wrong for the Right Reasons
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781402030482
ISBN-13 : 1402030487
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Book Synopsis Wrong for the Right Reasons by : Jed Z. Buchwald

Download or read book Wrong for the Right Reasons written by Jed Z. Buchwald and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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