Topic
Multiple discovery
About: Multiple discovery is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4 publications have been published within this topic receiving 49 citations. The topic is also known as: simultaneous invention.
Papers
TL;DR: In this paper, a discussion of the importance from the viewpoint of the sociology of science that a discovery be part of a scientist's central message is presented, and the analysis indicates that the familiar claims of the Stockholm school and of Michal Kalecki in this regard should be rejected.
Abstract: Discussions of independent multiple discoveries in science have paid inadequate attention to two essential points: precise definition of the discovery and the extent to which it was part of the scientist's central message. When account is taken of these points, some cases of alleged multiple discovery turn out to be singletons. This contention is illustrated by means of an examination of the alleged multiple discovery of the theory presented by J. M. Keynes in his General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. The analysis indicates that the familiar claims of the Stockholm school and of Michal Kalecki in this regard should be rejected. The paper ends with a discussion of the importance from the viewpoint of the sociology of science that a discovery be part of a scientist's central message.
53 citations
TL;DR: The pervasiveness of multiple discoveries in science suggests the intuition that they are in some sense inevitable, that one should view them as results that force themselves upon us, so to speak as discussed by the authors.
8 citations
TL;DR: Multiple discovery also known as simultaneous invention is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors.
Abstract: Multiple discovery also known as simultaneous invention is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors. Great minds think alike.
4 citations
TL;DR: It was commonly believed that in 1880 Karl Marx had proposed to dedicate to Charles Darwin a volume or translation of Capital but that Darwin had refused as discussed by the authors, but this was not the case.
Abstract: Between the 1930s and the mid 1970s, it was commonly believed that in 1880 Karl Marx had proposed to dedicate to Charles Darwin a volume or translation of Capital but that Darwin had refused. The d...
1 citations
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