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The Role of History in Science

Journal of the History of Biology, 2009
The case often made by scientists (and philosophers) against history and the history of science in particular is clear. Insofar as a field of study is historical as opposed to law-based, it is trivial. Insofar as a field attends to the past of science as opposed to current scientific issues, its efforts are derivative and, by diverting attention from ...
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The History of Science in a History Department

The History Teacher, 1980
TODAY'S TEACHERS of the history of science are beneficiaries of an explosive growth in the profession over the past two decades. Even a cursory comparison of annual critical bibliographies of Isis-the quarterly journal of the American History of Science Society-reveals starkly that the breadth and depth of our understanding of the history of science ...
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History of Science or History of Learning

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2019
AbstractThis essay presents analogies between the development of historical writing and of physical science during the early modern period. Its necessarily spotty coverage runs from the mid sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth. The analogies include arising from practical concerns; preferring material documents and experimental ...
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