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Author Harré, Rom.

Title Great scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world / Rom Harre
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, May 1983

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Description viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Series Oxford paperbacks
Oxford paperbacks.
Contents Formal aspects of method: Exploring the characteristics of a naturally occurring process: Embryology of the chick / Aristotle -- Process of digestion as chemistry / William Beaumont -- Deciding between rival hypotheses: Discovery of dip and the field concept / Robert Norman -- Circulation of sap in plants / Stephen Hales -- Conditions of imprinting / Konrad Lorenz -- Finding the form of a law inductively: Law of Descent / Galileo -- Measurement of the spring of the air / Robert Boyle -- Use of models to simulate otherwise unresearchable processes: Causes of the rainbow / Theodoric of Freibourg -- Exploiting an accident: Preparation of artificial vaccines / Louis Pasteur -- Artificial transmutation of the elements / Ernest Rutherford -- Null results: Impossibility of detecting the motion of the earth / A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley -- Developing the content of a theory: Finding the hidden mechanism of a known effect: Direct transfer of genetic material / F. Jacob and E. Wollman -- Mechanism of perception / J. J. Gibson -- Existence proofs: Proof of the oxygen hypothesis / A. L. Lavoisier -- Electrolytic isolation of new elements / Humphry Davy -- Discovery of the electron / J. J. Thomson -- Decomposition of an apparently simple phenomenon: Nature of colours / Isaac Newton -- Demonstration of underlying unity within apparent variety: Identity of all forms of electricity / Michael Faraday -- Technique: Accuracy and Care in Manipulation: Perfection of chemical measurement / J. J. Berzelius -- Power and versatility of apparatus: Wave aspect of matter and the third quantum number / Otto Stern -- General bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Summary Tells of twenty landmark scientific advances, with pictures and biographies of the scientists who produced them, and discussion of their experiments and techniques
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy.
Science -- History -- Sources.
Science -- Methodology -- Case studies.
Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy.
Science -- History -- Sources.
Science -- Experiments -- History.
Science -- Methodology -- Case studies.
Scientists -- Biography.
Science.
Science -- history.
Genre/Form Biography.
Autobiographies.
LC no. 82019035
ISBN 0192860364