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Quirky Sides of Scientists : True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy

Quirky Sides of Scientists : True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007

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Publisher's Synopsis

These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein's stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. Copernicus and Galileo are found suppressing information. A theme running throughout the book is the notion that what is obvious today was not so in the past. Scientists seen in their historical context shatter myths and show them to be less modern than we often like to think of them.

Book information

ISBN: 9781441924292
Publisher: Springer New York
Imprint: Springer
Pub date:
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
DEWEY: 520.72
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 210
Weight: 349g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 12mm