Investigative pathways

Description

"This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features in their careers and their landmark discoveries and sheds light on the nature of long-term experimental research."--Jacket.

First Sentence

In his study of the activities of a group of followers of William Harvey who pursued, during the decades between 1640 and 1690, a cluster of unsolved problems made prominent by Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, Robert Frank wrote in 1980 that the older historians of science had tended to treat only the "products" of past developments: that is, the explanations reached for the phenomena examined.

Excerpt

In his study of the activities of a group of followers of William Harvey who pursued, during the decades between 1640 and 1690, a cluster of unsolved problems made prominent by Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, Robert Frank wrote in 1980 that the older historians of science had tended to treat only the "products" of past developments: that is, the explanations reached for the phenomena examined.

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Other Editions

• Investigative pathways: patterns and stages in the careers of experimental scientistsYale University Press2004-01-01
• Investigative PathwaysHardcoverYale University Press2004-03-10