New scientific ideas are subjected to an extensive process of evaluation and validation by the scientific community. Until the early 1980s, this process of validation was thought to be governed by objective criteria, whereas the process by which individual scientists gave birth to new scientific ideas was regarded as inaccessible to rational study. In this book Gerald Holton takes an opposing view, illuminating the ways in which the imagination of the scientist functions early in the formation of a new insight or theory. In certain crucial instances, a scientist adopts an explicit or implicit...
New scientific ideas are subjected to an extensive process of evaluation and validation by the scientific community. Until the early 1980s, this proce...
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cul...
Woran erkennt man gute Wissenschaft? Welches Ziel - wenn ein solches uberhaupt existiert -zeichnet sich am Ende als der eigent liche Zweck jeder wissenschaftlichen Tatigkeit ab? Aufwelche legi timierende Autoritat konnen sich Wissenschaftler berufen? Diese aUen Fragen, fur die jede Epoche ihre eigenen Antworten sucht, werden heute wieder heftig diskutiert. Ich habe fur dieses Buch Antworten ausgewahlt, die hauptsachlich in unserem Jahr hundert entstanden sind und in erster Linie an den Worten und Handlungen von Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftsphilosophen ablesbar sind. Wie die Leser meiner...
Woran erkennt man gute Wissenschaft? Welches Ziel - wenn ein solches uberhaupt existiert -zeichnet sich am Ende als der eigent liche Zweck jeder wisse...
David C. Cassidy Gerald Holton F. James Rutherford
UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS is an innovative introductory course designed for students preparing to enter careers in fields outside of science or engineering, including students planning to teach, or already teaching, in K-12 classrooms. It is inspired by the famous Project Physics Course, which became known for its success in inspiring students with the excitement of physics by placing its concepts within a broader humanistic context.--UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS enables students to gain a full appreciation of physics both as a discipline and as a body of knowledge: a sense of what the concepts mean,...
UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS is an innovative introductory course designed for students preparing to enter careers in fields outside of science or engineerin...
Based on papers presented at the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium in March 1979, this volume sets forth an articulated sequence of chapters on the impact of Einstein's work, not only in science but in humanistic studies and problems such as international security in the nuclear age.
Originally published in 1982.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books...
Based on papers presented at the Jerusalem Einstein Centennial Symposium in March 1979, this volume sets forth an articulated sequence of chapters ...
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cul...
