The Relativity of Wrong

The Relativity of Wrong is a 1988 collection of seventeen essays on science by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. ^[1]

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Table of Contents

1. 16 relations: Andromeda Galaxy, Doubleday (publisher), Earth, Far as Human Eye Could See, Flat Earth, Hardcover, Harold Urey, Isaac Asimov, Isotope, Lunar effect, Out of the Everywhere, Paperback, Rationalism, Spheroid, Sucrose, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

2. Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
3. Philosophy of science literature

Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Far as Human Eye Could See

Far as Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (published 1987) is a collection of science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, short works which originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), these being first published between November 1984 and March 1986. The Relativity of Wrong and Far as Human Eye Could See are Doubleday (publisher) books, essay collections by Isaac Asimov and works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

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Flat Earth

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Harold Urey

Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Lunar effect

The lunar effect is a purported correlation between specific stages of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle and behavior and physiological changes in living beings on Earth, including humans.

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Out of the Everywhere

Out of the Everywhere is a 1990 collection of seventeen scientific essays written by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov and originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The Relativity of Wrong and Out of the Everywhere are Doubleday (publisher) books, essay collections by Isaac Asimov and works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

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Spheroid

A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.

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Sucrose

Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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See also

Essay collections by Isaac Asimov

• Adding a Dimension
• Asimov on Science Fiction
• Counting the Eons
• Fact and Fancy
• Far as Human Eye Could See
• From Earth to Heaven
• Of Matters Great and Small
• Of Time and Space and Other Things
• Only a Trillion
• Out of the Everywhere
• Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
• Robot Visions
• Science, Numbers, and I
• The Left Hand of the Electron
• The Planet That Wasn't
• The Relativity of Wrong
• The Road to Infinity
• The Secret of the Universe
• The Solar System and Back
• The Stars in Their Courses
• The Subatomic Monster
• The Sun Shines Bright (book)
• The Tragedy of the Moon
• View from a Height
• X Stands for Unknown

Philosophy of science literature

• Against Method
• An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon
• Aspects of Scientific Explanation
• Conquest of Abundance
• Critical Rationalism
• De praestigiis daemonum
• Ecological Orbits
• Encyclopédie
• Epistemological Letters
• Foundations of the Science of Knowledge
• Leviathan and the Air-Pump
• Novum Organum
• Philosophical Problems of Space and Time
• Philosophy of Natural Science
• Physicist and Christian
• Popper and After
• Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
• Proofs and Refutations
• Religion and Nothingness
• The Copernican Revolution (book)
• The Grammar of Science
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• The Moral Landscape
• The Myth of the Framework
• The Natural Ontological Attitude
• The Relativity of Wrong
• The Republican Brain
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The World (book)
• Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
• Two Dogmas of Empiricism
• Unended Quest

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong

Also known as Asimov's axiom, Even more wrong, Relativity of Wrong, Wronger than Wrong.

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