Experiment is widely regarded as the most distinctive feature of natural science and essential to the way scientists find out about the world. Yet there has been little study of the way scientists actually make and use experiments. The Uses of Experiment fills this gap in our knowledge about how science is practised. Presenting 14 original case studies of important and often famous experiments, the book asks the questions: What tools do experimenters use? How do scientists argue from experiments? What happens when an experiment is challenged? How do scientists check that their experiments are...

Dass Lukas in seinem Evangelium historische Genauigkeit mit einem damals üblichen Stilmittel, der literarischen Symmetrie, verbindet, ist wenig bekannt. D. Gooding weist nach, dass Lukas bei seiner Stoffauswahl erstaunlich systematisch vorging - bis in Einzelheiten hinein ...