Fabulous Science —— Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

----- 寓言科学：历史与科学发现中的事实与虚构

ISBN: 9780198609391 出版年：2002 页码：320 Waller, John Oxford University Press

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: what is history for? PART 1: RIGHT FOR THE WRONG REASONS 1. The pasteurization of spontaneous generation 2. 'The battle over the electron' 3. The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington's 'proof' of general relativity 4. Very unscientific management 5. The Hawthorne studies: finding what you are looking for Conclusion to Part 1: sins against science? PART 2: TELLING SCIENCE AS IT WAS 6. Myth in the time of cholera 7. 'The priest who held the key': Gregor Mendel and the ratios of fact and fiction 8. Was Joseph Lister Mr Clean? 9. The Origin of Species by means of use-inheritance 10. 'A is for ape, B is for Bible': science, religion, and melodrama 11. Painting yourself into a corner: Charles Best and the discovery of insulin 12. Alexander Fleming's dirty dishes 13. 'A decoy of Satan' Conclusion to Part 2: sins against history? Notes on sources Index