Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy Hardcover - 2007
by David R. Topper
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These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein's stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. Copernicus and Galileo are found surpressing information. A theme running throughout the book is the notion that what is obvious today was not so in the past. Scientists seen in their historical context shatter myths and show them to be less modern than we often like to think of them.
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- Title Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy
- Author David R. Topper
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 210
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 2007-07-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780387710181 / 0387710183
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.41 x 0.62 in (23.39 x 16.28 x 1.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Errors, Scientific, Physics - Research - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007925263
- Dewey Decimal Code 520.72
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