Time for science education : how teaching the history and philosophy of pendulum motion can contribute to science literacy / Michael R. Matthews.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Kluwer academic/Plenum publishers, c2000.
Descrizione fisica:
XXVIII, 439 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Innovations in science education and technology
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. Learning about the pendulum and improving science education 2. Navigation and the longitude problem 3. Ancient and medieval timekeeping 4. Galileo and the pendulum clock 5. Galileo's analysis of pendulum motion 6. Christiaan Huygens and the pendulum clock 7. Perfecting mechanical timekeeping and solving the longitude problem 8. The pendulum in Newton's physics 9. Clocks and culture : the clock analogy in philosophy and theology 10. Science and philosophy : some lessons from the history of pendulum motion 11. Teaching and learning about time and pendulum motion : some theoretical considerations 12. Teaching and learning about time and pendulum motion : some pedagogical considerations 13. Science education, teacher education and culture. Appendix: Some significant dates. Endnotes. References. Credits. Author index. Subject index
