Hipóteses e interpretação experimental: a conjetura de poincaré e a descoberta da hiperfosforescência por Becquerel e Thompson Hypothesis and experimental interpretation: Poincaré'... by Roberto de Andrade Martins

“…Their interpretation that they had discovered a phenomenon called "hyperphosphorescence" was grounded upon the presuppositions which guided their experiments - such as Henri Poincaré's conjecture that there was a relation between the emission of X rays by a Crookes tube, and the luminescence of its glass. This case study shows how scientific observation is guided by preexisting ideas, and how difficult it is to interpret the observed phenomena. …”
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