Great scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world (Record no. 44456)
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| fixed length control field | 02489 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780486422633 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 507.2 |
| Item number | HAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harre, Rom |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Great scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Mineola |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Dover Publications, Inc. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1981 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 222,iip. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Preface 7<br/>Introduction 9<br/>I. Formal Aspects of Method<br/> A. Exploring the Characteristics of a Naturally Occurring Process<br/>1. Aristotle: TheEmbryology ofthe Chick 31<br/>2. William Beaumont: The Process of Digestion as Chemistry 39<br/>B. Deciding between Rival Hypotheses<br/>3. Robert Norman: The Discovery of Dip and the Field Concept 49<br/>4. Stephen Hales: The Circulation of Sap in Plants 57<br/>5. Konrad Lorenz: The Conditions of Imprinting 65<br/>C. Finding the Form of a Law Inductively<br/>6. Galileo: The Law of Descent 76<br/>7. Robert Boyle: The Measurement of the Spring of the Air 83<br/>D. The Use of Models to Simulate otherwise Unresearchable Processes<br/>8. The odoric of Freibourg: The Causes of the Rainbow 93<br/>E. Exploiting an Accident<br/>9. Louis Pasteur: The Preparation of Artificial Vaccines 102<br/>10. Ernest Rutherford: The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements 111<br/>F. Null Results<br/>11. A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley: The Impossibility of <br/> Detecting the Motion of the Earth 124<br/>II. Developing the Content of a Theory<br/>A. Finding the Hidden Mechanism of a Known Effect<br/>12. F. Jacob and E. Wollman: The Direct Transfer of Genetic Material 137<br/>13. J. J. Gibson: The Mechanism of Perception 147 <br/>B. Existence Proofs<br/>14. A. L. Lavoisier: The Proof of the Oxygen Hypothesis 155<br/>15. Humphry Davy: The Electrolytic Isolation of' New Elements 163 <br/>16. J. J. Thomson: The Discovery of the Electron 171<br/>C. The Decomposition of an Apparently Simple Phenomenon<br/>17. Isaac Newton: The Nature of Colours 182<br/>D. The Demonstration of Underlying Unity within Apparent Variety<br/>18. Michael Faraday: The Identity of All Forms of Electricity 191<br/>III. Technique<br/>A. Accuracy and Care in Manipulation<br/>19. J. J.Berzelius: The Perfection of Chemical Measurement 201<br/>B. The Power and Versatility of Apparatus<br/> 20. Otto Stern: The Wave Aspect of Matter and the Third Quantum Number 212<br/>General Bibliography 221<br/>Index 223<br/><br/> |
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| Country | USA |
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| Topic | FP |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Planning | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 02/08/2016 | amazon.in | 965.00 | 4 | 7 | 507.2 HAR | 016439 | 03/04/2023 | 14/03/2023 | 965.00 | 02/08/2016 | Book |