Philosophy Of Science, The, Pt 1

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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