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Allan Franklin, Selectivity and Discord: Two Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2002), 288pp., $38.50 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Klaus Hentschel
Klaus Hentschel*
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Universität Bern
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 607 - 610
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1. Actually, the omitted drop of 16 April 1912, which is “among Millikan's most consistent measurements” and initially commented upon by him with “Publish. Fine for showing two methods of getting v,” leads to 0.6e as we learn from Franklin's highly interesting footnote 12 on 256f., which really belongs in the main text along with further discussion. In general, such historical material apparently playing into the hands of the constructivists must be addressed with particular care up front rather than be tucked away in the endnotes.