The Philosophical Illustrations of Scientific Choice

The famous experiments fuco's pendulum, cavendish's demonstration of gravitational attraction and fizo's measurement of the lative speed of sound in water and air are paradimes of good reason for scientific choice. But they also have another characteristic in common. By the time they were performed, scientist still needed to be convinced of the validity of the theory. Their outcome is now used to demonstrate those decisions had long since been made on the basis of significantly more equivocal evidence. The only arguments discussed are as i have previously indicated, the ones favorable to the theory that, in fact, ultimately triumphed oxygen. We read could explain weight relations. Phlogistin could not. Nothing