Wrong for the Right Reasons

Abstract

1. Introduction: Beyond Disunity and Historicism; J. Buchwald, A. Franklin. 2. "In order that we should not ourselves appear to be adjusting our estimates... to make them fit some predetermined amount"; A. Jones. 3. Ptolemy's Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypothese; N. Swerdlow. 4. Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis; W.R. Newman, L.M. Principe. 5. Descartes and the Heart Beat; M. Grene. 6. Newton's Investigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and Lenses; A. Shapiro. 7. Wrong Science in Book 2 of Newton's Principia; G. Smith. 8. Photometry in the Early 19th Century; X. Chen. 9. An Error Within a Mistake; J. Buchwald. 10. The Konopinski-Uhlenbeck Theory of Beta Decay; A. Franklin