CiNii 図書 - Newton's apple and other myths about science

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

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A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity-or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens. Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of great scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present. Among the myths refuted in this volume is the idea that no science was done in the Dark Ages, that alchemy and astrology were purely superstitious pursuits, that fear of public reaction alone led Darwin to delay publishing his theory of evolution, and that Gregor Mendel was far ahead of his time as a pioneer of genetics. Several twentieth-century myths about particle physics, Einstein's theory of relativity, and more are discredited here as well. In addition, a number of broad generalizations about science go under the microscope of history: the notion that religion impeded science, that scientists typically adhere to a codified "scientific method," and that a bright line can be drawn between legitimate science and pseudoscience. Edited by Ronald Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis, Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science debunks the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience "Eureka!" moments and suddenly comprehend what those around them could never imagine. Science has always been a cooperative enterprise of dedicated, fallible human beings, for whom context, collaboration, and sheer good luck are the essential elements of discovery.

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