Newton's apple and other myths about science
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Newton's apple and other myths about science
Harvard University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-270) and index
Contents of Works
- Medieval and early modern science
- That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Michael H. Shank
- That before Columbus, geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack
- That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Michael N. Keas
- That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Lawrence M. Principe
- That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / John L. Heilbron
- That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Patricia Fara
- Nineteenth century
- That Friedrich Wöhler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg
- That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Adam R. Shapiro
- That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Julie Newell
- That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr
- That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Robert J. Richards
- That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Michael Ruse
- That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Nicolaas Rupke
- That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Erika Lorraine Milam
- That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Garland E. Allen
- That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Kostas Kampourakis
- That social Darwinism has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in the United States of America / Ronald L. Numbers
- Twentieth century
- That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Theodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu
- That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Mansoor Niaz
- That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / David J. Depew
- That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by natural selection / David W. Rudge
- That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Bruno J. Strasser
- That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science education / John L. Rudolph
- Generalizations
- That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Peter Harrison
- That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Kathryn M. Olesko
- That the scientific method accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Daniel P. Thurs
- That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin