Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quantitative Imperative Versus the Imperative of Presuppositions -- Understanding Scientific Progress: From Duhem to Lakatos -- Kinetic Theory: Maxwell's Presuppositions -- Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley -- Foundations of Modern Atomic Theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr -- Determination of the Elementary Electrical Charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft -- Paradox of the Photoelectric Effect: Einstein and Millikan -- Bending of Light in the 1919 Eclipse Experiments: Einstein and Eddington -- Lewis's Covalent Bond: From Transfer of Electrons to Sharing of Electrons -- Quantum Mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm -- Wave–Particle Duality: De Broglie, Einstein, and Schrödinger -- Searching for Quarks: Perl's Philosophy of Speculative Experiments -- Conclusion: Inductive Method as a Chimera…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny -- Short-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On the road : of highways and gasoline -- The back door into the sky -- Flying down to Rio -- A boy's life in the new century -- Inventing a better mousetrap -- War -- A funeral in the fifties -- After modern…”
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