Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial preface
- History of science and its rational reconstructions
- Atomism versus thermodynamics
- Thomas Young and the ‘refutation’ of Newtonian optics: a case-study in the interaction of philosophy of science and history of science
- Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston? Research programmes in the Chemical Revolution
- Why did Einstein's Programme supersede Lorentz's?
- The rejection of Avogadro's hypotheses
- On the critique of scientific reason
- Index of Names
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial preface
- History of science and its rational reconstructions
- Atomism versus thermodynamics
- Thomas Young and the ‘refutation’ of Newtonian optics: a case-study in the interaction of philosophy of science and history of science
- Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston? Research programmes in the Chemical Revolution
- Why did Einstein's Programme supersede Lorentz's?
- The rejection of Avogadro's hypotheses
- On the critique of scientific reason
- Index of Names
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- Method and Appraisal in the Physical SciencesThe Critical Background to Modern Science, 1800–1905, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976