Read Chapter VI in Kuhn’s SSR
Read Case 2 in Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Vol. I and II (CHES), p. 90-115
Reading Quiz 6. Submit 1-2 pages in response to the following prompts:
What was the role of luck in Priestley’s discovery of what is now known as oxygen?
Describe Priestley’s nitrous air test. How does this test become relevant to the discovery of oxygen?
What are the three step in the discovery of a novel phenomenon, according to Kuhn?
This quiz must be typed and submitted electronically in MS Word (.doc or .docx) format. The file must be named in the following format: Lastname_ReadingQuiz6.doc. Submit your completed document on the Reading Quiz 6 upload page.
View Lecture 6A.
View Lecture 6B.
