Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control /
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| Shrnutí: | VIII, 307 p. 26 illus., 7 illus. in color. text |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Edice: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2 |
| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj Kniha |
Obsah:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective (Jutta Schickore)
- Chapter 2. Christoph Scheiner’s The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics (Tawrin Baker)
- Chapter 3. One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments (Caterina Schürch)
- Chapter 4. Controlling Induction: Practices and Reflections in Brewster’s Optical Studies (Friedrich Steinle)
- Chapter 5. Carl Stumpf and Control Groups (Julia Kursell)
- Chapter 6. A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Claudia Cristalli)
- Chapter 7. Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany (Kärin Nickelsen)
- Chapter 8. Controlling the Unobservable: Experimental Strategies and Hypotheses in Discovering the Causal Origin of Brownian Movement (Klodian Coko)
- Chapter 9. From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh's Strategies of Experimental Control (Vasiliki Christopoulou and Theodore Arabatzis)
- Chapter 10. Controlling Away the Phenomenon: Maze Research and the Nature of Learning (Evan Arnet)
- Chapter 11. Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch and the Study of Color Vision in Fish (Christoph Hoffmann).