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Lädt ... Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Sciencevon Ronald L. Numbers
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"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,"--Amazon.com. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The first essay "That there was no scientific activity between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution" is just a terrible start, in part because it lacks a definition of scientific activity. It also uses the fact that Caesar sent for a Greek scholar from Alexandria when he decided he needed to reform the calendar to demonstrate that there was no scientific activity in the Roman Empire This strikes me as too ludicrous an argument to argue with. Read Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth, Mother Board" for a better treatment of the importance of the library of Alexandria in antiquity. ( )