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Cover 1 Series 3 Making 20th Century Science 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 14 Preface 16 Part One The Reception and Evaluation of Theories in the Sciences 22 1 Who Needs the Scientific Method? 24 1.1 The Rings of Uranus 25 1.2 Maxwell and Popper 27 1.3 What is a Prediction? A Mercurial Definition 29 1.4 Hierarchy and Demarcation 31 1.5 What’s Wrong with Quantum Mechanics? 33 1.6 Was Chemistry More Scientific than Physics (1865–1980)? Mendeleev’s Periodic Law 33 1.7 Scientific Chemists: Benzene and Molecular Orbitals 34 1.8 The Unscientific (But Very Successful) Method of Dirac and Einstein: Can We Trust Experiments to Test Theories? 36 1.9 Why was Bibhas De’s paper rejected by Icarus? 39 1.10 The Plurality of Scientific Methods 39 2 Reception Studies by Historians of Science 51 2.1 What is Reception? 51 2.2 The Copernican Heliocentric System 52 2.3 Newton’s Universal Gravity 56 2.4 Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection 62 2.5 Bohr Model of the Atom 70 2.6 Conclusions and Generalizations 73 3 Prediction-Testing in the Evaluation of Theories: A Controversy in the Philosophy of Science 94 3.1 Introduction 94 3.2 Novelty in the Philosophy of Sc

Author

Stephen G. Brush

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