What science is and how it works / Gregory N. Derry
- Bib ID:
- 1543788
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Derry, Gregory Neil, 1952-
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- Description:
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999
- 311p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0691058776 (acid-free paper) (alkaline paper) (cl.) (cloth)
- Full contents:
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- Prologue: What Is Science?
- Pt. I. Exploring the Frontiers of Science: How New Discoveries are Made in the Sciences. Ch. 1. A Bird's Eye View: The Many Routes to Scientific Discovery. Ch. 2. Nature's Jigsaw: Looking for Patterns As a Key to Discovery. Ch. 3. New Vistas: Expanding Our World with Instrumentation. Ch. 4. Close, But No Cigar: Discrepancies As a Trigger to Discovery. Ch. 5. Ingredients for a Revolution: Thematic Imagination, Precise Measurements, and the Motions of the Planets
- Pt. II. Mental Tactics: Some Distinctively Scientific Approaches to the World. Ch. 6. A Universe in a Bottle: Models, Modeling, and Successive Approximation. Ch. 7. Thinking Straight: Evidence, Reason, and Critical Evaluation. Ch. 8. The Numbers Game: Uses of Quantitative Reasoning
- Pt. III. Larger Questions: The Context of Science. Ch. 9. Ultimate Questions: Science and Religion. Ch. 10. More Practical Questions: Science and Society.
- Ch. 11. Difficult and Important Questions: Science, Values, and Ethics. Ch. 12. Questions of Authenticity: Science, Pseudoscience, and How to Tell the Difference. Ch. 13. Contentious Questions: The Shadowy Borderlands of Science. Ch. 14. Very Abstract Questions: The Philosophy of Science. Ch. 15. Questions of Legitimacy: The Postmodern Critique of Science
- Pt. IV. Common Ground: Some Unifying Concepts in the Sciences. Ch. 16. Fleas and Giants: Some Fascinating Insights about Area, Volume, and Size. Ch. 17. The Edge of the Abyss: Order and Disorder in the Universe. Ch. 18. Riding Blake's Tiger: Symmetry in Science, Art, and Mathematics. Ch. 19. The Straight and Narrow: Linear Dependence in the Sciences. Ch. 20. The Limits of the Possible: Exponential Growth and Decay. Ch. 21. In the Loop: Feedback, Homeostasis, and Cybernetics
- Epilogue: So, What Is Science?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Science
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