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  1. Alberto A. Martínez is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), among other books.

  2. Benjamin Gross is Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library and the author of The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).

  3. Amy A. Fisher is an assistant professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound. Her main research interests focus on the history and philosophy of the physical sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

References

  1. Allan Franklin, “What Makes a ‘Good’ Experiment?,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32, no. 4 (1981), 367–74, on 367.

  2. Robert P. Crease, Joseph D. Martin, and Peter Pesic, “What Is Still Neglected about Experiment?,” Physics in Perspective 19, no. 3 (2017), 319.

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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 20, 208–217 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-018-0220-4

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