O conceito de descoberta científica: os raios de Roentgen como estudo de caso

• Autor(a) principal: Cestari Junior, Decio Hermes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13317
• topic: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen; Raio X; Descoberta científica; Século XIX; Roentgen; Scientific Discovery; Nineteenth Century; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS

This work aims to analyse the concept of discovery in the nineteenth century by exploring the behaviour of scientists and the common people at that time. We have started by studying original documents on X rays published by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. We have found that some evidences proving that scientists claim the discoveries to themselves. This claim was important because it led them to achieve an elevated scientific recognition. To develop this work we have considered different scientific approaches in order to understand the behaviour of members of scientific community. Therefore, the fields of philosophy of science and sociology of science were also applied to support some parts of this research. By analysing publications of that time it was possible to understand the concept of scientific discovery among common people during the nineteenth century. In the last part of our research we have analysed the concept of science currently used in popular science books. We could find misconceptions such as trying to explain science from discoveries or describing experiments as if they were crucial, that is, the story of winners. It's possible to note that some of those misconceptions found in the common sense of the nineteenth century can also be found in the current popular science books