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000943337 1001_ $$aSmith, George E.$$q(George Edwin),$$d1938-$$eauthor.
000943337 24510 $$aBrownian motion and molecular reality :$$ba study in theory-mediated measurement /$$cGeorge E. Smith and Raghav Seth.
000943337 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2020.
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000943337 4901_ $$aOxford studies in philosophy of science
000943337 4901_ $$aOxford scholarship online
000943337 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000943337 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000943337 5208_ $$aLegend has it that Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion between 1905 and 1913 'put a definite end to the long struggle regarding the real existence of molecules.' Close examination of these experiments, however, shows how little access they gained to the molecular realm. They did succeed in determining mean kinetic energies of particles in Brownian motion, but the values for molecular magnitudes Perrin inferred from them simply presupposed that those energies match the mean kinetic energies of molecules in the surrounding fluid. This monograph explains how Perrin's measurements of the kinetic energies in Brownian motion were nevertheless exemplars of theory-mediated measurement - the practice of inferring values for inaccessible quantities from values of accessible proxies via theoretical relationships between them.
000943337 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 15, 2020).
000943337 60010 $$aPerrin, Jean,$$d1870-1942.
000943337 650_0 $$aBrownian movements$$xResearch$$xHistory.
000943337 650_0 $$aMolecular theory$$xHistory.
000943337 7001_ $$aSeth, Raghav,$$eauthor.
000943337 77608 $$iPrint version:$$z9780190098025
000943337 830_0 $$aOxford studies in philosophy of science.
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