Lesson test: Making knowledge public

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Making knowledge public

1.[2p]
What does publishing an anagram of a result achieve?

A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content

Correct

Protection from censorship by the Church

The answer is: A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content

A way of testing whether readers are competent

The answer is: A dated public claim to priority without disclosing the content

A guarantee that no one else has the same result

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?

CorrectNot quite: 1665

3.[3p]
Why does a journal make secrecy unattractive in a way an anagram does not?

It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work

Correct

It pays authors for their contributions

The answer is: It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work

It prevents rivals from reading the result

The answer is: It buys the same priority while forcing the content out, so reputation comes to rest on published work

It removes the need for witnesses

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?

Select all that apply

Apparatus described in enough detail to be rebuilt, with engravings

Correct

The names of those present and the date of the trial

Correct

Failed trials reported alongside successful ones

Correct

A mathematical derivation of the result from first principles

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.

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.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

7.[3p]
What was Hobbes's philosophical objection to the experimental programme?

A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry

Correct

Experiments are too expensive for anyone but the rich

The answer is: A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry

Air pumps had already been shown to be impossible

The answer is: A collection of facts entails no general truth, and philosophy should be demonstrative like geometry

Nature cannot be studied without mathematics

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?

Select all that apply

An apparatus described well enough for someone else to build it

Correct

Named witnesses and a dated entry in a record the author did not control

Correct

Reproduction by other people with other instruments

Correct

Publication in a dated periodical

Correct

The endorsement of a royal patron

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?

Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong

Correct

That every published result has been proved

The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong

That no result is published until it is certain

The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong

That errors cannot survive more than one issue of a journal

The answer is: Not truth, but correction: claims acquire an address at which they can be shown wrong

1.[2p] What does publishing an anagram of a result achieve?

2.[2p] 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?

4.[3p] Which features of Boyle's experimental reports serve to make the reader a virtual witness?

5.[3p] Match each body or person to what they contributed.

6.[2p] Hobbes was right that Boyle's receiver leaked, so the experiments were conducted in rarefied air rather than in a void.

7.[3p] What was Hobbes's philosophical objection to the experimental programme?

8.[3p] What did an experimental fact have to acquire before it could outrank a text?

9.[3p] What does this machinery actually guarantee?

1.[2p]
What does publishing an anagram of a result achieve?

2.[2p]
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?

4.[3p]
Which features of Boyle's experimental reports serve to make the reader a virtual witness?

5.[3p]
Match each body or person to what they contributed.

6.[2p]
Hobbes was right that Boyle's receiver leaked, so the experiments were conducted in rarefied air rather than in a void.

7.[3p]
What was Hobbes's philosophical objection to the experimental programme?

8.[3p]
What did an experimental fact have to acquire before it could outrank a text?

9.[3p]
What does this machinery actually guarantee?