Great scientific experiments twenty experiments that changed our view of the world /
| Main Author: | Harré, Rom. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1983.
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Series: |
Oxford paperbacks.
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Table of 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.