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![Making 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge by Stephen G. Brush](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOEkyckE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--daa7b1db0dd368f4d10c9882555e013ffde4235b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Making%2020th%20Century%20Science-%20How%20Theories%20Became%20Knowledge.jpg)
552 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199978151
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 13 April 2015
Description
Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory tha...
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552 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199978151
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 13 April 2015
Description
Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory tha...