31 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Conceptual and Technological Revolutions
There are two kind s of scientific revolutions, those
d riven by new tools and those d riven by new concepts.
Thomas K uhn in his famous book, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, talked almost exclusively about
concepts and hard ly at all about tools. His id ea of a
scientific revolution is based on a single example, the revolution in theoretical physics that occurred in the
1920s with the advent of quantum mechanics. This was
a prime example of a concept-d riven revolution.
K uhn's book...Folksonomies: progress revolution
Folksonomies: progress revolution
07 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Reason Comes After a Plan
When Galileo caused balls, the weights of which he had himself previously determined, to roll down an inclined plane; when Torricelli made the air carry a weight which he had calculated beforehand to be equal to that of a definite volume of water; or in more recent times, when Stahl changed metal into lime, and lime back into metal, by withdrawing something and then restoring it, a light broke upon all students of nature. They learned that reason has insight only into that which it produces a...Folksonomies: experimentation
Folksonomies: experimentation
There must be experiments to guide reason, without which reason will make up it's own explanations.