Título:
Science and common sense
Clasificación:
I 001.42 C743
Imp / Ed.:
New York : New Haven and London Yale, University Press, 1951.
Idioma:
English
Descripción:
XII, 334 pages : illustrated 21 cm.
Temas:
Notas:
"A Keith Jennison book."
Bibliography
Contenido:
Chapter 1. Science and the american citizen. Chapter 2. What is science? Chpter 3. Concerning the alled scientific method. Chapter 4. The development of the concept of atmospheric pressure. Chapter 5. Some recurring patterns in experimental inquiry. Chapter 6. Geometrical reasoning and quantitative experimentation. Chapter 7. The origin of a conceptual scheme: the chemical revolution. Chapter 8. The study of living organisms: Natural history and experimental biology. Chapter 9. Experiment and observation in biology: Illustrations from the controversy concerning spontaneous generation. Chapter 10. The study of the past. Chapter 11. The impact of science on industry and medicine.



