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Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds): Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching

Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-515-09842-7 (paperback), 362 pp, price: EUR 49.00

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Notes

  1. The book is based on a two-day symposium of the same name organized by the editors at the University of Regensburg, Germany, April 4–5, 2009. Revisions of many symposium talks, along with additional papers, constitute the book’s chapters. The editors published a subset of five papers originating in the conference as the February 2012 (21(2)) thematic issue of Science & Education, titled “The History of Experimental Science Teaching”; one publication (Eggen et al. 2012) is omitted in the book.

  2. An error overlooked in the book stands out to this reviewer.

  3. See the internet references provided in footnotes and references of the book. For other sources, Brenni’s extensive videos of historical didactic instruments in action are accessed by going to http://www.youtube.com/user/florencefst/videos?sort=dd&view=0&page=1. See also the Scientific Instrument Commission’s website links http://www.sic.iuhps.org/.

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Cavicchi, E. Peter Heering and Roland Wittje (eds): Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching . Sci & Educ 21, 1375–1380 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-012-9467-3

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