American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2016: Baltimore, Md.)
The Author in Dialogue: Steven Weinberg's 'To Explain the World' [sound recording], 2016 March 14.
Audio recording of session C14 of the March 2016 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Baltimore, Maryland in March 2016. This session was chaired by Joseph D. Martin, Michigan State University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Reflections of a whig physicist" (Steven Weinberg); "Beller Lecture: Is Understanding the Past in Its Own Terms Understanding?" (David Wootton); "To Explain Copernicus: The Islamic Scientific and Religious Contexts" (F. Jamil Ragep); "The Diagnosis of Error in Histories of Science" (William Thomas); "To be determined" (Jennifer Ouellette). Topics discussed include history of science; using hindsight in the writing of history; Copernicus; heliocentrism; errors in the history of science.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Weinberg, Steven, 1933-
History of Science.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- Historiography.
Science -- History.
Ouellette, Jennifer
Ragep, F. J.
Thomas, G. William (Gerald William)
Weinberg, Steven, 1933-
Wootton, David, 1952-
AIP-ICOS
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