Wrong for the right reasons
Jed Z. Buchwald, A. Franklin · 2005
Where to buy
Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.
View on AmazonThis is an affiliate link: if you buy through it, the site earns a small commission at no extra cost to you, which helps us bring quality content and maintain the site. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
About the book
The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Series
- Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
- Publisher
- Springer
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN
- 9781402030475
Data source: Wikidata
More by Jed Z. Buchwald
