Philosophy Of Science, The, Pt 1

Year Published: 1982

Creator: BRITISH BROADCASTING CO-TV 630 FIFTH AVE NEW YORK NY 10020

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Uses excerpts from Microbes And Men to demonstrate the development of a scientific theory as the result of observations, inductive methods, analysis and inspiration. Explains how Ignaz Semmelweis of the Great General Hospital in Vienna discovered the cause of puerperal fever by creating a paradigm for thinking and by breaking out of the old theory.


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