The Golem: What You Should Know About Science
ISBN: 9781107604650 | 1107604656
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/30/2012
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Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. The very well-received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this second edition, which seeks to place the book in what have be... MORE
| Introduction: the Golem | |
| Edible knowledge: the chemical transfer of memory | |
| Two experiments that 'proved' the theory of relativity | |
| The sun in a test tube: the story of cold fusion | |
| The germs of dissent: Louis Pasteur and the origins of life | |
| A new window on the universe: the non-detection of gravitational radiation | |
| The sex life of the whiptail lizard | |
| Set ... MORE | |
| Conclusion: putting the Golem to work | |
| Afterword | |
| References and further reading | |
| Index | |
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