{"id":345,"date":"2023-06-07T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:28:12","slug":"2020-11-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/2020-11-17\/","title":{"rendered":"2020-11-17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border tw-mt-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/VHSlogo.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Foredrag d. 17. november 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ukendt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253 size-thumbnail\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Prof. Jed Z. Buchwald<\/strong><br><\/strong>California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-green-background-color has-background has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Newtonian Origins of Experimental Error<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In the mid-1750s the English mathematician Thomas Simpson tried to convince astronomers that it was a good idea to average multiple measurements. He had much work to do, because neither\u00a0astronomers nor physicists were in the habit of combining multiple measurements to produce a best final value. How then did experimenters and observers work with discrepant data before\u00a0statistical methods became common at\u00a0the beginning of the 19th century? We will first tour the worlds of Tycho Brahe, Robert Hooke, Ren\u00e9 Descartes and Johannes Hevelius to see how they\u00a0worked with data. And then we turn to the young Isaac Newton, who developed an altogether novel way with measurements, the very way that became ever after the foundation of experimental\u00a0method, for it was Newton who first decided that bad numbers could be put together to generate good ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-e81dcf76-1778-4686-8de3-854e3dbc7a19\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foredrag d. 17. november 2020 Prof. Jed Z. BuchwaldCalifornia Institute of Technology The Newtonian Origins of Experimental Error In the mid-1750s the English mathematician Thomas Simpson tried to convince astronomers that it was a good idea to average multiple measurements. He had much work to do, because neither\u00a0astronomers nor physicists were in the habit of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/2020-11-17\/\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2020-11-17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tw-no-title.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videnskabshistorisk.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}