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- catalog abstract ""This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features in their careers and their landmark discoveries and sheds light on the nature of long-term experimental research."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13160990.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features in their careers and their landmark discoveries and sheds light on the nature of long-term experimental research."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.".
- catalog description "Interpretations of Scientific Discovery and Creativity -- Investigation, Discovery, and Experimental Practice -- The Three Scales of the Investigative Pathway and the Materials for Their Reconstruction -- Phases in the Lifetime Career -- Apprenticeship and the Achievement of Independence -- Mastery of a Domain -- Is Distinction Achieved or Conferred? -- Maturity and the Dilemmas of the Aging Scientist -- Episodic Rhythms within an Investigative Life -- Complicating the Pathway Metaphor -- Complicating the Episodic Rhythms -- Predictability and Unpredictability -- The Fine Structure of Experimental Investigation -- The Interplay between Thought and Operation -- Flashes of Insight and Moments of Discovery -- Conclusion: The Narrative Representation of Investigative Pathways -- Afterword: F.L. Holmes and the History of Science / Jed Z. Buchwald.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 225 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300100752 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "2007 E-699".
- catalog subject "501/.9 22".
- catalog subject "Creative ability in science.".
- catalog subject "Creativity".
- catalog subject "Discoveries in science.".
- catalog subject "Q 172.5.C74 H749i 2004".
- catalog subject "Q172.5.C74 H65 2004".
- catalog subject "Research methods".
- catalog subject "Science methods".
- catalog subject "Science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Interpretations of Scientific Discovery and Creativity -- Investigation, Discovery, and Experimental Practice -- The Three Scales of the Investigative Pathway and the Materials for Their Reconstruction -- Phases in the Lifetime Career -- Apprenticeship and the Achievement of Independence -- Mastery of a Domain -- Is Distinction Achieved or Conferred? -- Maturity and the Dilemmas of the Aging Scientist -- Episodic Rhythms within an Investigative Life -- Complicating the Pathway Metaphor -- Complicating the Episodic Rhythms -- Predictability and Unpredictability -- The Fine Structure of Experimental Investigation -- The Interplay between Thought and Operation -- Flashes of Insight and Moments of Discovery -- Conclusion: The Narrative Representation of Investigative Pathways -- Afterword: F.L. Holmes and the History of Science / Jed Z. Buchwald.".
- catalog title "Investigative pathways : patterns and stages in the careers of experimental scientists / Frederic Lawrence Holmes.".
- catalog type "text".