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100 1 $aConant, James Bryant,$d1893-1978.
245 10 $aScience and common sense.
260 $aNew Haven,$bYale University Press,$c1951.
300 $axii, 371 pages$billustrations$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-357).
505 0 $aScience and the American citizen : The traditions of scientific inquiry ; Science as an organized activity -- What is science? : The dynamic view of science ; Science and reality; A skeptical approach ; Increasing the adequacy of conceptual schemes ; Certain common-sense assumptions ; Accumulative knowledge ; Progress in knowledge and practice -- Concerning the alleged scientific method : The birth of experimental science in the seventeenth century ; Speculative ideas, working hypotheses, and conceptual schemes ; Experimentation ; Testing deductions by experiment ; Aims and assumptions by scientific experimentation ; The degree of empiricism in a science or a practical art ; Science and technology -- The development of the concept of atmospheric pressure : Young men and amateurs: A digression ; The invention of the vacuum pump ; Richard Boyle's experiments -- Some recurring patterns in experimental inquiry : Illustrations from some of Boyle's experiments ; The transmission of sound in a vacuum ; Exploration with a new technique ; Boyle's contributions to techniques of experimentation. The role of accident : Galvani's discoveries ; Volta's invention of the electric battery ; The discovery of X rays ; The discovery of the rare gases -- Geometrical reasoning and quantitative experimentation : The principles of hydrostatics: Truth by definition ; Boyle's law ; The significance of measuring instruments ; Mathematical truths and probable knowledge -- The origin of a conceptual scheme: The chemical revolution : The significance of the phlogiston theory ; Scientific discoveries may be disregarded ; Experimental difficulties with gases ; Lavoisier's clue ; Quantitative measurements and accidental errors ; The phlogiston theory: A block to a new concept ; The effective discovery of oxygen ; The last stand of the phlogiston theory ; The development of the chemist's atomic theory -- The study of living organisms: Natural history and experimental biology : Pasteur's study of fermentation as an illustration of experimental biology -- Experiment and observation in biology: Illustrations from the controversy concerning spontaneous generation : The control experiment ; Cause and effect in biology ; The eighteenth century controversy concerning heterogenesis ; Pasteur's controversy with Pouchet -- The study of the past : Concerning the aims of geology ; Geophysics, an experimental science ; Advances in the practical arts ; Concerning the tactics and strategy of geologists and paleontologists ; The origin and evolution of living entities -- The impact of science on industry and machine : The changing status of science and invention ; Science and industry: The present situation ; Problems of organization ; Medicine and public health: The spectrum of the medical sciences ; Programmatic research and the uncommitted investigator ; The role of the universities ; Why more science? -- Science, invention, and the state : Science and national defense ; The problem of evaluating research directed to weapon production ; Federal funds for fundamental research ; Science and politics ; Value judgments and the social scientist ; Scientists and the government.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aConant, James Bryant, 1893-1978.$tScience and common sense.$dNew Haven, Yale University Press, 1951$w(OCoLC)593164911
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