The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies

By Gerald Holton

Book Overview

Using firsthand accounts gleaned from notebooks, interviews, and correspondence of such twentieth-century scientists as Einstein, Fermi, and Millikan, Holton shows how the idea of the scientific imagination has practical implications for the history and philosophy of science and the larger understanding of the place of science in our culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521217008
• ISBN13: 9780521217002
• Release Date: March 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"