Great Scientific Experiments : Twenty Experiments That Changed Our View of the World

Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Fellow Rom Harre
Courier Corporation
9780486422633
0-486-42263-1

Vivid, readable, and accurate, these tales of landmark scientific inquiries include Aristotle's work on the embryology of the chick, Galileo's discovery of the law of descent, Newton's experiment on the.

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nature of colors, and 17 others. Each experiment is appraised and analyzed in the light of subsequent events.