Making 20th Century Science How Theories Became Knowledge
Making 20th Century Science How Theories Became Knowledge
- ISBN 13:
9780199978151
- ISBN 10:
0199978158
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/13/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
But does science really work this way? In Making 20th Century Science, Stephen G. Brush discusses this question, as it relates to the development of science throughout the last century. Answering this question requires both a philosophically and historically scientific approach, and Brush blends the two in order to take a close look at how scientific methodology has developed. Several cases from the history of modern physical and biological science are examined, including Mendeleev's Periodic Law, Kekule's structure for benzene, the light-quantum hypothesis, quantum mechanics, chromosome theory, and natural selection. In general it is found that theories are accepted for a combination of successful predictions and better explanations of old facts.
Making 20th Century Science is a large-scale historical look at the implementation of the scientific method, and how scientific theories come to be accepted.