Method and appraisal in the physical sciences
Subtitle: the critical background to modern science, 1800-1905
By: edited by Colin Howson.
Contributors: Howson, Colin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Physical sciences -- Methodology; Physical sciences -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Lakatos, I. History of science and its rational reconstructions.; title: Clark, P. Atomism vs. thermodynamics.; title: Worrall, J. Thomas Young and the "rufutation" of Newtonian optics.; title: Musgrave, A. Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston?; title: Zahar, E. Why did Einstein's programme supersede Lorentz's?; title: Frické, M. The rejection of Avogadro's hypotheses.; title: Feyerabend, P. On the critique of scientific reason.