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Wrong for the Right Reasons

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism
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    Chapter 2 “In Order That We Should Not Ourselves Appear to Be Adjusting Our Estimates … to Make Them Fit Some Predetermined Amount”
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    Chapter 3 Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables , and Planetary Hypotheses
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    Chapter 4 Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis
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    Chapter 5 Descartes and the Heart Beat: A Conservative Innovation
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    Chapter 6 Skating on the Edge: Newton’s Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses
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    Chapter 7 Was Wrong Newton Bad Newton?
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    Chapter 8 Visual Photometry in the Early 19th Century: A “Good” Science with “Wrong” Measurements
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    Chapter 9 An Error within a Mistake?
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    Chapter 10 The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of β Decay: Its Proposal and Refutation
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Chapter title
Skating on the Edge: Newton’s Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses
Chapter number 6
Book title
Wrong for the Right Reasons
Published in
ADS, January 2005
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3048-7_6
Book ISBNs
978-1-4020-3047-5, 978-1-4020-3048-2
Authors

Alan E. Shapiro

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Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 1 50%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 50%
Physics and Astronomy 1 50%

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