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  1. Guest Editor’s Introduction
  2. Gerald Holton
  3. pp. v-ix
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0052
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  1. Editor’s Introduction
  2. Arien Mack
  3. pp. xi-xii
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0007
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  1. Scientific Error and the Ethos of Belief
  2. Lorraine Daston
  3. pp. 1-28
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0016
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Errors in the Natural Sciences

  1. Becquerel’s Blunder
  2. Lawrence Badash
  3. pp. 31-62
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0024
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  1. Author of Error
  2. Peter Galison
  3. pp. 63-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0032
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  1. Tycho and Kepler: Solid Myth versus Subtle Truth
  2. Owen Gingerich, James R. Voelkel
  3. pp. 77-106
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0040
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  1. Marconi’s Error: The First Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy in 1901
  2. Sungook Hong
  3. pp. 107-124
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0048
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  1. In Search of El Dorado: John Dalton and the Origins of the Atomic Theory
  2. Alan J. Rocke
  3. pp. 125-158
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0003
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  1. Kin Selection as the Key to Altruism: Its Rise and Fall
  2. Edward O. Wilson
  3. pp. 159-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0012
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Errors in the Social Sciences

  1. Errors in Economics and Their Consequences
  2. William J. Baumol
  3. pp. 169-194
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0021
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  1. I Think, Therefore I Err
  2. Gerd Gigerenzer
  3. pp. 195-218
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0029
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  1. The Two Projects of the American Social Sciences
  2. Kenneth Prewitt
  3. pp. 219-236
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0037
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  1. The Questionable Logic of “Mistakes” in the Dynamics of Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences
  2. Neil J. Smelser
  3. pp. 237-262
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0045
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. c3-c4
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2005.0000
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