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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 ...
Creath Richard
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Who cares about the history of science? [PDF]

Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2017
Hasok Chang
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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 and the Science Museum

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1997
Whereas the academic discipline of the history of science has made enormous strides in half a century, ironically, recognition from without has often been disappointing. Private success has not been matched by public status. The work of the Science Museum in London as one of the few widely accessible windows into the discipline is ...
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History of the Science of Dialysis

American Journal of Nephrology, 1997
Thomas Graham (1805-1869), who is credited with seminal work on the nature of the diffusion of gases and of osmotic forces in fluids, can properly be called the father of modern dialysis. His apparatus to study the behavior of biological fluids through a semipermeable membrane clearly presaged the artificial kidney in clinical use today.
C W, Gottschalk, S K, Fellner
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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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The History of Science and the Sciences of Medicine

Osiris, 1995
Considerer que la pratique de la medecine fait partie de l'histoire de la medecine, et non de l'histoire des sciences, n'est pas une theorie soutenable, car l'histoire de la medecine est une histoire politique, sociale et economique comme l'histoire des ...
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History of Science Today, 2.: History of Science in the Netherlands

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1987
After Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff had passed away on 1 March 1911, his pupil Charles Marinus van Deventer (1860–1931) wrote a very personal ‘in memoriam’ in the Dutch literary periodical De Gids, pointing out that van't Hoff had merely been interested in scientific facts, not in the people discovering these facts. Van't Hoff considered the study of the
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The History of Science of Canada

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1988
Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind
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