Great scientific experiments : twenty experiments that changed our view of the world / Rom Harré.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford paperbacksPublication details: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983, ©1981.Description: viii, 216 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 0192860364
- 9780192860361
- Q182.3 .H37 1983
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index.
Formal aspects of method: Exploring the characteristics of a naturally occurring process: Embryology of the chick / Aristotle -- Process of digestion as chemistry / William Beaumont -- Deciding between rival hypotheses: Discovery of dip and the field concept / Robert Norman -- Circulation of sap in plants / Stephen Hales -- Conditions of imprinting / Konrad Lorenz -- Finding the form of a law inductively: Law of Descent / Galileo -- Measurement of the spring of the air / Robert Boyle -- Use of models to simulate otherwise unresearchable processes: Causes of the rainbow / Theodoric of Freibourg -- Exploiting an accident: Preparation of artificial vaccines / Louis Pasteur -- Artificial transmutation of the elements / Ernest Rutherford -- Null results: Impossibility of detecting the motion of the earth / A.A. Michelson and E.W. Morley -- Developing the content of a theory: Finding the hidden mechanism of a known effect: Direct transfer of genetic material / F. Jacob and E. Wollman -- Mechanism of perception / J.J. Gibson -- Existence proofs: Proof of the oxygen hypothesis / A.L. Lavoisier -- Electrolytic isolation of new elements / Humphry Davy -- Discovery of the electron / J.J. Thomson -- Decomposition of an apparently simple phenomenon: Nature of colours / Isaac Newton -- Demonstration of underlying unity within apparent variety: Identity of all forms of electricity / Michael Faraday -- Technique: Accuracy and Care in Manipulation: Perfection of chemical measurement / J.J. Berzelius -- Power and versatility of apparatus: Wave aspect of matter and the third quantum number / Otto Stern -- General bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.
Tells of twenty landmark scientific advances, with pictures and biographies of the scientists who produced them, and discussion of their experiments and techniques.