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245	1	0	_aNewton's apple and other myths about science /edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Kostas Kampourakis.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages)
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505	0	0	_tMedieval and early modern science -- _tMyth 1. That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / _rMichael H. Shank -- _tMyth 2. That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / _rLesley B. Cormack -- _tMyth 3. That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / _rMichael N. Keas -- _tMyth 4. That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / _rLawrence M. Principe -- _tMyth 5. That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / _rJohn L. Heilbron -- _tMyth 6. That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / _rPatricia Fara -- _tNineteenth century -- _tMyth 7. That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / _rPeter J. Ramberg -- _tMyth 8. That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / _rAdam R. Shapiro -- _tMyth 9. That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / _rJulie Newell -- _tMyth 10. That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / _rRichard W. Burkhardt Jr -- _tMyth 11. That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / _rRobert J. Richards -- _tMyth 12. That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / _rMichael Ruse -- _tMyth 13. That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / _rNicolaas Rupke -- _tMyth 14. That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / _rErika Lorraine Milam -- _tMyth 15. That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / _rGarland E. Allen -- _tMyth 16. That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / _rKostas Kampourakis -- _tMyth 17. That "social Darwinism" has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in the United States of America / _rRonald L. Numbers -- _tTwentieth century -- _tMyth 18. That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / _rTheodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu -- _tMyth 19. That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / _rMansoor Niaz -- _tMyth 20. That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / _rDavid J. Depew -- _tMyth 21. That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by natural selection / _rDavid W. Rudge -- _tMyth 22. That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / _rBruno J. Strasser -- _tMyth 23. That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science -- _tEducation / _rJohn L. Rudolph -- _tGeneralizations -- _tMyth 24. That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / _rPeter Harrison -- _tMyth 25. That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / _rKathryn M. Olesko -- _tMyth 26. That the "scientific method" accurately reflects what scientists actually do / _rDaniel P. Thurs -- _tMyth 27. That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / _rMichael D. Gordin.
520	0		_aA falling apple inspired the law of gravity-or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.
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650		0	_aErrors, Scientific _xHistory _vPopular works.
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655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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