The Scientific Imagination

The Scientific Imagination

Author: Gerald James Holton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780674794887

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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.