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Direct linkStuewer, Roger H. – Science & Education, 2006
The capsule histories of physics that students learn in their physics courses stem basically, I believe, from a linear view of history--that physicists in making fundamental discoveries follow a Royal Road to them, as Hermann von Helmholtz put it in 1892. The actual routes they follow, however, are generally nonlinear, and when historians display…
Descriptors: Physics, Science History, Scientists, Experiments
