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  1. Understanding macroscopic quantum phenomena: The history of superfluidity 1941–1955.Kostas Gavroglu & Yorgos Goudaroulis - 1988 - Annals of Science 45 (4):367-385.
    In this paper we attempt to investigate the historical and methodological aspects of the developments related to superfluid helium, concentrating on the period between 1941 and 1955. During this period, the various developments constituted a series of steps towards redefining and refining the two-fluid concept devised to explain the unexpected macroscopic behaviour of superfluid helium. The idea that superfluids are essentially ‘quantum structures on a macroscopic scale’ functioned as a heuristic principle which guided the theoretical physicists engaged in the above (...)
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  • Some methodological and historical considerations in low temperature physics: The case of superconductivity 1911–57.Kostas Gavroglu & Yorgos Goudaroulis - 1984 - Annals of Science 41 (2):135-149.
    (1984). Some methodological and historical considerations in low temperature physics: The case of superconductivity 1911–57. Annals of Science: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 135-149.
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  • Some methodological and historical considerations in low temperature.Kostas Gavroglou & Yorgos Goudaroulis - 1986 - Annals of Science 43 (2):137-146.
    In this paper we study some of the methodological problems associated with the development of the various theoretical schema devised to explain the phenomenon of superfluidity. The physical behaviour of supercooled helium defied explanation in terms of the known atomic laws for helium and their ‘natural’ extrapolations. We show that the basic conceptual difficulties involved were circumvented by the development of intermediate intermediaries through a process of contextual reinterpretation.
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  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes' Researches at Leiden and Their Methodological Implications.Kostas Gavroglu - 1988 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (2):243.
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  • A taxonomy of theoretical and experimental tests.Kostas Gavroglu - 1989 - Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 20 (1):18-39.
    Der Aufsatz versucht die verschiedenen theoretischen und experimentellen Tests, denen Theorien unterworfen werden, zu kategorisieren. Kriterien sind dabei weder die verschiedenen Arten der experimentellen Anordnungen, noch die verschiedenen Wege, um die Messungen durchzuführen. Stattdessen wird der Begriff des Experimentierens ausgeweitet, und es werden die drei Hauptkategorien der Theorienprüfungen analysiert. Es sind dies: Eine Menge von theoretischen Bedingungen, die der Theorie auferlegt werden, um die größtmögliche Information und heuristische Hilfsmittel zu erhalten; eine Menge von allgemeinen theoretischen Zugängen, um entscheiden zu können, (...)
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