Experiments About the Natural World
Title | Experiments About the Natural World PDF eBook |
Author | Zella Williams |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1404236619 |
A collection of simple science experiments designed to teach young students about the natural world.
Natural Experiments of History
Title | Natural Experiments of History PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Diamond |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674076729 |
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing, and explaining the world. In the historical disciplines, a fruitful approach has been to use natural experiments or the comparative method. This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the later chapters. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands. In an Afterword, the editors discuss how to cope with methodological problems common to these and other natural experiments of history.
Natural Experiments
Title | Natural Experiments PDF eBook |
Author | Judith A. Layzer |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0262622149 |
EBM entails collaborative, landscape-scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation.
The Laboratory of the Mind
Title | The Laboratory of the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | James Robert Brown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2005-09-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134865791 |
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments. Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.
101 Nature Experiments
Title | 101 Nature Experiments PDF eBook |
Author | David Burnie |
Publisher | DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780789404664 |
Step-by-step instructions for performing a variety of natural science experiments.
What Science Is and How It Really Works
Title | What Science Is and How It Really Works PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Zimring |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2019-07-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1108476856 |
A timely and accessible synthesis of the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science through the eyes of a practicing scientist.
101 Nature Experiments
Title | 101 Nature Experiments PDF eBook |
Author | David Burnie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN | 9780751353815 |
Will satisfy the curiosity of the young naturalist and encourage an awareness and enjoyment of the natural world. Understand the basic principles of nature through experiments using simple, everyday objects. Discover the natural world on your doorstep with easy to follow step-by-step instructions and color photographs showing each stage of every experiment. 101 Nature Experiments will satisfy the curiosity of the young naturalist and encourage an awareness and enjoyment of the natural world.