The Scientific Imagination

With a New Introduction

Gerald Holton

    Preface

    Introduction:
    How a scientific discovery is made: The case of high-temperature superconductivity

    On the Thematic Analysis of Science

    Themata in scientific thought

    Subelectrons, presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute

    Dionysians, Apollonians, and the scientific imagination

    Analysis and Synthesis as methodological themata

    Studies in Recent Science

    Fermi's group and the recapture of Italy's place in physics

    Can science be measured?

    On the psychology of scientists, and their social concerns

    Public Understanding of Science

    Lewis Mumford on science, technology, and life

    Frank E. Manuel's Isaac Newton

    Ronald Clark and Albert Einstein

    On the educational philosophy of the Project Physics Course

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science, Harvard University.