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100			_aHarre, Rom _949576
245			_aGreat scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world
260			_aMineola _bDover Publications, Inc. _c1981
300			_a222,iip.
505			_aCONTENTS 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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