Explaining the Growth of Scientific Knowledge: Metaphors, Models, and Meanings

By Daniel Rothbart

This study explains scientific progress through analogical cross-fertilization of ideas between distinct physical systems. In many cases, progress can be generatedfrom a radically new juxtaposition of apparently incongruous physical systems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773487212
• ISBN13: 9780773487215
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.5"