The Art of Scientific Investigation

2017-09-25
 |  Science
The Art of Scientific Investigation

Author: W.I.B. Beveridge

Publisher: Edizioni Savine

ISBN: 9788899914356

Category: Science

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Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man. It is true that much time and effort is devoted to training and equipping the scientist's mind, but little attention is paid to the technicalities of making the best use of it. There is no satisfactory book which systematises the knowledge available on the practice and mental skills—the art—of scientific investigation. This lack has prompted me to write a book to serve as an introduction to research. My small contribution to the literature of a complex and difficult topic is meant in the first place for the student about to engage in research, but I hope that it may also interest a wider audience. Since my own experience of research has been acquired in the study of infectious diseases, I have written primarily for the student of that field. But nearly all the book is equally applicable to any other branch of experimental biology and much of it to any branch of science. – (Cambridge, 1957. W.I.B. Beveridge)

The Social Process of Scientific Investigation

2012-12-06
 |  History
The Social Process of Scientific Investigation

Author: W.R. Knorr

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400991095

Category: History

Page: 328

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practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at self-selected other sites. Less may be left implicit, and additional personal and contextual information is carried, by the "informal" methods of communication which mediate local projects and international publication. But both methods of communication are screens as well as conduits of information. History and Background of the Volume When the planning of this volume began in the spring of 1977, it seemed a natural part of the mandate for the Yearbook. There had also been a number of more specific calls for deeper studies of research in social and historical context (3). These calls can be seen as giving permission and legitimacy to ask questions otherwise seen as irrelevant, or even disrespectful, and as attempts to develop new perspectives from which to ask and to answer them. The implied and expressed irreverence toward traditions and institutions of great respect may have prolonged this process of initial apologetics. In any case, in May 1977 the theme of 'The Social Process of Scientific Investigation' was proposed to the Editorial Board for Volume IV as "the heart of the subject. " That is, the ethnographic and detailed historical study of actual scientific activity and thinking at or close to the work site.

Fundamentals of Nursing Research

2003
 |  Medical
Fundamentals of Nursing Research

Author: Dorothy Young Brockopp

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

ISBN: 0763715670

Category: Medical

Page: 562

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This book is written to inspire enthusiasm among nursing students toward the research process. Concepts are presented in a unique worktext format, which makes it easier for students to understand and simplify the principles of research.

Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries

2009-02-04
 |  Antiques & Collectibles
Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries

Author: Paul Craddock

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781136436017

Category: Antiques & Collectibles

Page: 642

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The faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins, and driven by the astronomic prices realised on the global market. This book aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the subject over a wide range of materials, emphasising how the fakes and forgeries are produced and how they may be detected by technical and scientific examination. The subject is exemplified by numerous case studies, some turning out not to be as conclusive as is sometimes believed. The book is aimed at those likely to have a serious interest in these investigations, be they curator, collector, conservator or scientist. Paul Craddock has recently retired from the Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science at the British Museum, where he was a materials scientist.

Periodic Table of the Elements Poster Chart, ELITE Edition with 20 Physical and Chemical Properties Displayed Per Element, Including All Trends Explained and Displayed - 24x36 Inch Art Photo Print Mounted on 3/16" Ultra Board

2018-03
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Periodic Table of the Elements Poster Chart, ELITE Edition with 20 Physical and Chemical Properties Displayed Per Element, Including All Trends Explained and Displayed - 24x36 Inch Art Photo Print Mounted on 3/16

Author: Costel Rizescu

Publisher:

ISBN: 1947641204

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The Ultimate Periodic Table of Elements provides systematic, up-to-date, and easy-to-understand background material and aid for scientists, students, and instructors. All data have been thoroughly compiled from international standards and recommendations by IUPAC, NIST, LANL, and abundant scientific articles; it is 100% error-free and conforms to the latest published information. This scientific artwork represents a large database presented on various media, mounts, and supports with sizes ranging from 10x13 to 40x60 inches, handy for studying, teaching, and performing highly reliable research. It is offered as printed on high-quality Kodak Art Paper, MetalPrint (1 mm thick), or Acrylic Print (6-13 mm thick) with a rich selection of mounting and wall display options. The Kodak Art Paper Print is offered as 1) a stand-alone Poster; 2) mounted on a 5 mm Ultra Board - a lightweight, warp-resistant, rigid, smooth, most economical choice for poster mounting used in art galleries; 3) mounted on a 2 mm Styrene - a rigid, smooth, durable mounting solution for cost-effective posters. The Art Paper Print is UV resistant, eco-friendly, and offers consistent visibility against any light source with vibrant and radiant colors. MetalPrint offers vibrant colors, brilliant luminescence, a high-definition look, amazing detail, UV resistance, water, and fireproof, scratch resistant, and archival (100+ years) with a truly unique look. The Acrylic Print gives photos the depth of 3D for a stunning vivid presentation with impact; crystal clear, elegant, and pure image. All data on this chart has been analyzed and explained in large detail in our books titled 1) The Amazing World of the Atom and the Ultimate Periodic Table of Elements, 2) Functional Groups, Isomers, and Principles of Stereochemistry and 3) Structure of the Crystalline Solids, Imperfections, and Defects, found also in this store. It is a match for any classroom or science lab, library, research lab, or a student's study room.

The Poetry and Music of Science

2019-01-10
 |  Science
The Poetry and Music of Science

Author: Tom McLeish

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780192518927

Category: Science

Page: 400

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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime. Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015-12-17
 |  Science
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Claire Preston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191009976

Category: Science

Page: 304

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The writing of science in the period 1580-1700 is artfully, diffidently, carelessly, boldly, and above all self-consciously literary. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing — its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. The experimental and social practices of science are examined through literary representations of the laboratory, of collaborative retirement, of virtual, epistolary conversation, and of an imagined paradise of investigative fellowship and learning. Claire Preston argues that the rhetorical, generic, and formal qualities of scientific writing are also the intellectual processes of early-modern science itself. How was science to be written in this period? That question, which piqued natural philosophers who were searching for apt conventions of scientific language and report, was initially resolved by the humanist rhetorical and generic skills in which they were already highly trained. At the same time non-scientific writers, enthralled by the developments of science, were quick to deploy ideas and images from astronomy, optics, chemistry, biology, and medical practices. Practising scientists and inspired laymen or quasi-scientists produced new, adjusted, or hybrid literary forms, often collapsing the distinction between the factual and the imaginative, between the rhetorically ornate and the plain. Early-modern science and its literary vehicles are frequently indistinguishable, scientific practice and scientific expression mutually involved. Among the major writers discussed are Montaigne, Bacon, Donne, Browne, Lovelace, Boyle, Sprat, Oldenburg, Evelyn, Cowley, and Dryden.

Handbook of Rock Art Research

2001
 |  Science
Handbook of Rock Art Research

Author: David S. Whitley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 0742502562

Category: Science

Page: 876

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While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the makers of these beautiful images, new interpretive models help us understand this art in relation to culture. Identification, conservation and management of rock art sites have become major issues in historical preservation worldwide. And the number of archaeologically attested sites has mushroomed. In this handbook, the leading researchers in the rock art area provide cogent, state-of-the-art summaries of the technical, interpretive, and regional advances in rock art research. The book offers a comprehensive, basic reference of current information on key topics over six continents for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and rock art enthusiasts.