Experimentally. Experiments that have changed the world

The book tells about the main milestones in the development of experimental methods in various fields of the sciences of nature, man and society - physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, physiology, medicine, archeology, sociology, psychology, economics. The period has been covered from ancient times to the present day. The reader learns about famous and little -known experiments that have had a huge impact on the formation of our ideas about the world and about ourselves. The author pays much attention to not only the history of instruments and technologies, but also the history of ideas. The problems of the difference between the classical experiment from observation are addressed (when the experience of the “nature” itself), the continuity of technical innovations, the influence of the public climate on the experimenter’s work, and the role of accident in this work.
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