Book Details
The editors' approach highlights the moments of discovery that rise from scientific creativity, and the presentation humanizes the scientific process, revealing the extent to which great scientists were the first to consider the philosophical implications of their work. But, most significantly, the editors offer this as their central thesis: although each was ushered in by a revolution, and each contains counterintuitive elements that delayed its acceptance, these five theories exhibit a continuous rational development that has led them to a permanent place in the worldview of science. Accessible to the general reader yet sufficiently substantive that working scientists will find value in it, The Tests of Time offers an intimate look into how physical theory has been developed, by the brilliant people who have developed it.
- Binding Paperback
- ISBN13 9780691090856
- ISBN10 0691090858
- Pages 716
- Published 2003
- Language English
The tests of time : readings in the development of physical theory
- Author Lisa M. Dolling
- Publisher PRINCETON
- ISBN 9780691090856
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