Making knowledge public
1.[2p] What does publishing an anagram of a result achieve?
What does publishing an anagram of a result achieve?
The answer is: A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content
The answer is: A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content
The answer is: A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content
2.[2p] In what year did the first issue of Philosophical Transactions appear?
In what year did the first issue of Philosophical Transactions appear?
3.[3p] Why does a journal make secrecy unattractive in a way an anagram does not?
Why does a journal make secrecy unattractive in a way an anagram does not?
The answer is: It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work
The answer is: It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work
The answer is: It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work
4.[3p] Which features of Boyle's experimental reports serve to make the reader a virtual witness?
Which features of Boyle's experimental reports serve to make the reader a virtual witness?
Select all that apply
The answer is: Apparatus described in enough detail to be rebuilt, with engravings, The names of those present and the date of the trial, Failed trials reported alongside successful ones
5.[3p] Match each body or person to what they contributed.
Match each body or person to what they contributed.
Marin Mersenne
Henry Oldenburg
Robert Hooke
Academie Royale des Sciences
a small salaried membership chosen and directed by the state
three or four experiments performed before the fellows at every weekly meeting
a correspondence network that circulated problems and results across Europe
the first periodical devoted to reporting experiments, vetted before printing
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Marin Mersenne: a correspondence network that circulated problems and results across Europe Henry Oldenburg: the first periodical devoted to reporting experiments, vetted before printing Robert Hooke: three or four experiments performed before the fellows at every weekly meeting Academie Royale des Sciences: a small salaried membership chosen and directed by the state
6.[2p] Hobbes was right that Boyle's receiver leaked, so the experiments were conducted in rarefied air rather than in a void.
Hobbes was right that Boyle's receiver leaked, so the experiments were conducted in rarefied air rather than in a void.
The answer is: True
7.[3p] What was Hobbes's philosophical objection to the experimental programme?
What was Hobbes's philosophical objection to the experimental programme?
The answer is: A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry
The answer is: A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry
The answer is: A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry
8.[3p] What did an experimental fact have to acquire before it could outrank a text?
What did an experimental fact have to acquire before it could outrank a text?
Select all that apply
The answer is: An apparatus described well enough for someone else to build it, Named witnesses and a dated entry in a record the author did not control, Reproduction by other people with other instruments, Publication in a dated periodical
9.[3p] What does this machinery actually guarantee?
What does this machinery actually guarantee?
The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong
The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong
The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong