Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science
310 Thurs keywords of the kind that scientifi c method became have often contained “radically different or radically variable, y ...
Scientifi c Methods 311 Japanese kagaku. Differences and similarities can ultimately tell us much about alternative visions of s ...
312 Thurs methodological meditations of William Whewell, whose 1840 Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences headed a long list of w ...
Scientifi c Methods 313 men of science also expressed some dissatisfaction with Baconian- style rhetoric, sometimes adding analo ...
314 Thurs viewed as highly restrictive. Phrenological advocates widely claimed that their favorite science regarded a fact “as w ...
Scientifi c Methods 315 century that if “one expression were to be used to characterize the period as a whole, it would be ‘inte ...
316 Thurs tion coincided with a general trend in Anglo- American culture toward stronger boundaries, whether between regions of ...
Scientifi c Methods 317 edly taken evolution too far in explaining the history of humanity or the origin of life, sometimes ackn ...
318 Thurs and divines neglect to settle where the boundary lines are in the disputed territory,” which in this case was the expl ...
Scientifi c Methods 319 between the scientifi c and popular. An 1878 review of a work on birds complimented the author for “avoi ...
320 Thurs the term “working hypothesis” became common fare. And the pantheon of great scientists also began to change. In his Pr ...
Scientifi c Methods 321 seemed too abstract to provide even metaphorical guidance in everyday life. As early as 1906, a columnis ...
322 Thurs Despite such increased prominence, initial success at professionalizing scientifi c work mitigated the desire of many ...
Scientifi c Methods 323 about its precise nature, but he knew that it worked “miracles,” something mere calculation could never ...
324 Thurs the Study of Education was declaring that there “have been few points in educational discussions on which there has be ...
Scientifi c Methods 325 resident to complain that scientists seemed “hopeless” outside their spe- cialties. When he heard, false ...
326 Thurs of Immanuel Velikovsky in the 1950s, UFOs in the 1960s, or creation science in the 1980s, the slogan became an importa ...
Scientifi c Methods 327 torian John Rudolph has charted the rise of a movement among educa- tion reformers, scientists, and univ ...
328 Thurs in fi elds where emotions run high and data are scarce.”^77 Amidst recent debates over intelligent design, which claim ...
Scientifi c Methods 329 by the tangible and powerful postwar products of science, from nuclear weapons to spacecraft to computer ...
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