Author: Howson, Colin, editor:
Title: Method & Appraisal in the Physical Sciences. The Critical Backround to Modern Science, 1800-1905
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1976). orig.boards. 23x15cm, vii,344 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contains 7 papers. Includes: I. Lakatos "History of Science & its Rational Reconstructions"; P. Clark "Atomism versus Thermodynamics"; J. Worrall " Thomas Young & the 'Refutation' of Newtonian Optics: A Case-Study in the Interaction of Philosophy of Science & History of Science"; A. Musgrave " Why did Oxygen Supplant Phlogiston? Research Programmes in the Chemical Revolution"; E. Zahar "Why did Einstein's Programme Supersede Lorentz's?"; M. Fricke "The Rejection of Avogadro's Hypotheses"; P. Feyerabend "On the Critique of Scientific Reason".

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