Method and appraisal in the physical sciences
Subtitle: the critical background to modern science, 1800-1905
By: edited by Colin Howson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521113083
Subjects: Physical sciences; Methodology; History
Description: First published in 1976, this is a volume of studies on the problems of theory-appraisal in the physical sciences - how and why important theories are developed, changed and are replaced, and by what criteria we judge one theory an advance on another.
Notes: Originally published: 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.