Beyond the Bounds of Experience? John Tyndall and Scientific Imagination
Raffaella SantiPages 106-114DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085211 ABSTRACT “You imagine where you cannot experiment”… John Tyndall is a 19th century Irish scientist and natural philosopher. For him, scientific imagination is the faculty that enables scientists “to transcend the boundaries of the sense” and to connect the visible with the invisible – by forming mental images of phenomena, and […]
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