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Article #8697Re: Under-Appreciated Gems of Scientific Epistemology
From: jacques jedwab
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:24
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:24
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Sorry! But you waste your time. All and anything has been said, even on the role of the underdog in the lab (cf. de Sola Price on the role of low-ranking technicians in great discoveries, e.g. the supporting of the Michelson interferometer with a mercury bath). Who remembers the name of the inventor of the electrical dynamo (Zenobe Gramme), or of the stationary gas engine, or of the electrical brake. Science progresses both with Supermen (Ortega y Gasset model), who synthesize a whole domain (ex.: Langmuir), AND with obscure plodders who add a little pebble to the building (innumerable examples). J.J.
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