About Method – Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75989-0 (ISBN)
About Method shows that methodological advancement throughout history has not been simply a steady progression toward better, more sophisticated and improved methodologies of experimentation. Rather, it was a progression in awareness of the obstacles and limitations that scientists face in developing strategies to probe the myriad unknown complexities of nature. The first long-term history of this development and of snake venom research, About Method offers a major contribution to integrated history and philosophy of science.
Jutta Schickore is the Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University. She is the author of The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740-1870, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Introduction: “A matter so obscure, so difficult, and likewise so new . . .”
Chapter 1. Argument, Narrative, and Methods Discourse
Chapter 2. Many, Many Experiments
Chapter 3. Trying Again
Chapter 4. Newtonian Poison: A Mechanical Account of Viper Venom
Chapter 5. Experiment as the Only Guide
Chapter 6. Thousands of Experiments
Chapter 7. Practical Criticisms
Chapter 8. Controlling Experiment
Chapter 9. Unobservables
Chapter 10. Fragmentation and Modularity: Notes on Crotoxin
Conclusion: About MethodsAcknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2020 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 6 x 9 mm |
Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-75989-X / 022675989X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-75989-0 / 9780226759890 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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