What science is and how it works /

How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In this lively and wide-ranging book, Gregory Derry talks about these and other questions as he introduces t...

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מחבר ראשי: Derry, Gregory Neil, 1952- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1999.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7svbw
תוכן הענינים:
  • Exploring the frontiers of science: how new discoveries are made in the sciences
  • Mental tactics: some distinctively scientific approaches to the world
  • Larger questions: the context of science
  • Common ground: some unifying concepts in the sciences.