About this title: How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists, each examining the muscle contractions of a dissected frog in contact with metal, came up with opposing but experimentally valid explanations of the ...
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Description: Fine. 0691085129 Princeton Univ Press hardcover w/dj, 1992, 1st U.S. edition/1st printing, immaculate/unused, No marks/tears or defects...Fine/Fine (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and ed in a Box w/ confirmation. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780691085128ISBN:0691085129
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 203 p. Audience: General/trade. All orders carefully packed to ensure stated condition upon arrival. Domestic orders include USPS Delivery Confirm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780691085128ISBN:0691085129
Description: Fine. 1992 Green cloth 8vo, 203pp. With copious diagrams and other illustrations throughout. PO was Gavin Bridson, the late bibliographer at the Hunt Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Fine/Fine. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo. read more
Description: 1992. Princeton. First U.K. VG/VG. 9.5x6. 203pp. 45 illus in text. How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community, how and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this path breaking book, translated from the Italian by Jonathan Mandelbaum, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy on animal electricity of the late ... read more
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