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Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Myth 4. That Alchemy and Astrology Were Superstitious Pursuits That Did Not Contribute to Science and Scientific Understanding
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December 31 2015
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pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. vii
Contents
pp. xiii
Acknowledgments
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 7
Myth 1. That There Was No Scientific Activity between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution
pp. 16
Myth 2. That before Columbus, Geographers and Other Educated People Thought the Earth Was Flat
pp. 23
Myth 3. That the Copernican Revolution Demoted the Status of the Earth
pp. 32
Myth 4. That Alchemy and Astrology Were Superstitious Pursuits That Did Not Contribute to Science and Scientific Understanding
pp. 40
Myth 5. That Galileo Publicly Refuted Aristotle’s Conclusions about Motion by Repeated Experiments Made from the Campanile of Pisa
pp. 48
Myth 6. That the Apple Fell and Newton Invented the Law of Gravity, Thus Removing God from the Cosmos
pp. 59
Myth 7. That Friedrich Wöhler’s Synthesis of Urea in 1828 Destroyed Vitalism and Gave Rise to Organic Chemistry
pp. 67
Myth 8. That William Paley Raised Scientific Questions about Biological Origins That Were Eventually Answered by Charles Darwin
pp. 74
Myth 9. That Nineteenth- Century Geologists Were Divided into Opposing Camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians
pp. 80
Myth 10. That Lamarckian Evolution Relied Largely on Use and Disuse and That Darwin Rejected Lamarckian Mechanisms
pp. 88
Myth 11. That Darwin Worked on His Theory in Secret for Twenty Years, His Fears Causing Him to Delay Publication
pp. 96
Myth 12. That Wallace’s and Darwin’s Explanations of Evolution Were Virtually the Same
pp. 103
Myth 13. That Darwinian Natural Selection Has Been “the Only Game in Town”
pp. 112
Myth 14. That after Darwin (1871), Sexual Selection Was Largely Ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) Resurrected the Theory
pp. 119
Myth 15. That Louis Pasteur Disproved Spontaneous Generation on the Basis of Scientific Objectivity
pp. 129
Myth 16. That Gregor Mendel Was a Lonely Pioneer of Genetics, Being Ahead of His Time
pp. 139
Myth 17. That Social Darwinism Has Had a Profound Influence on Social Thought and Policy, Especially in the United States of America
pp. 149
Myth 18. That the Michelson- Morley Experiment Paved the Way for the Special Theory of Relativity
pp. 157
Myth 19. That the Millikan Oil- Drop Experiment Was Simple and Straightforward
pp. 164
Myth 20. That Neo- Darwinism Defines Evolution as Random Mutation Plus Natural Selection
pp. 171
Myth 21. That Melanism in Peppered Moths Is Not a Genuine Example of Evolution by Natural Selection
pp. 178
Myth 22. That Linus Pauling’s Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Sickle- Cell Anemia Revolutionized Medical Practice
pp. 186
Myth 23. That the Soviet Launch of Sputnik Caused the Revamping of American Science Education
pp. 195
Myth 24. That Religion Has Typically Impeded the Progress of Science
pp. 202
Myth 25. That Science Has Been Largely a Solitary Enterprise
pp. 210
Myth 26. That the Scientific Method Accurately Reflects What Scientists Actually Do
pp. 219
Myth 27. That a Clear Line of Demarcation Has Separated Science from Pseudoscience
pp. 227
Notes
pp. 271
Contributors
pp. 279
Index
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