TY  - GEN
AU  - Harre, Rom
TI  - Great scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world
SN  - 9780486422633
U1  - 507.2 
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Mineola
PB  - Dover Publications, Inc.
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface 										   7
Introduction									   9
I.	Formal Aspects of Method
    A. Exploring the Characteristics of a Naturally Occurring Process
1.	Aristotle: TheEmbryology ofthe Chick 					  31
2.	William Beaumont: The Process of Digestion as Chemistry 			  39
B.	Deciding between Rival Hypotheses
3.	Robert Norman: The Discovery of Dip and the Field Concept	49
4.	Stephen Hales: The Circulation of Sap in Plants	57
5.	Konrad Lorenz: The Conditions of Imprinting	65
C.	Finding the Form of a Law Inductively
6.	Galileo: The Law of Descent 						  76
7.	Robert Boyle: The Measurement of the Spring of the Air			  83
D.	The Use of Models to Simulate otherwise Unresearchable Processes
8.	The odoric of Freibourg: The Causes of the Rainbow 				   93
E.	Exploiting an Accident
9.	Louis Pasteur: The Preparation of Artificial Vaccines	 102
10.	Ernest Rutherford: The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements 		  111
F.	Null Results
11.	A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley: The Impossibility of  
               Detecting the Motion of the Earth 						  124
II.	Developing the Content of a Theory
A. Finding the Hidden Mechanism of a Known Effect
12.	F. Jacob and E. Wollman: The Direct Transfer of Genetic Material		   137
13.	J. J. Gibson: The Mechanism of Perception 					   147 
B.	Existence Proofs
14.	A. L. Lavoisier: The Proof of the Oxygen Hypothesis	155
15.	Humphry Davy: The Electrolytic Isolation of' New Elements	163 
16.	J. J. Thomson: The Discovery of the Electron 	171
C.	The Decomposition of an Apparently Simple Phenomenon
17.	Isaac Newton: The Nature of Colours	182
D.	The Demonstration of Underlying Unity within Apparent Variety
18.	Michael Faraday: The Identity of All Forms of Electricity	191
III. Technique
A.	Accuracy and Care in Manipulation
19.	J. J.Berzelius: The Perfection of Chemical Measurement		                 201
B.	The Power and Versatility of Apparatus
          20. Otto Stern: The Wave Aspect of Matter and the Third Quantum Number 	 212
General Bibliography								 221
Index										         	 223


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