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Historians and Programmers in the 1970s: Formal Languages, the Writing of History, and Ideas of Science

Journal of the History of Ideas, 2023
This article analyzes some of the issues raised by historians after turning to computers for historical research in the 1960s and 1970s. The main point is to enrich this context by looking into the debates computer programmers were having in their own field at the same time. In particular, the use of formal languages to enhance the theoretical basis of
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The Kelvin dictum and social science: An excursion into the history of an idea

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Lord Kelvin's dictum on the importance of measurement in science is frequently quoted (and more frequently misquoted). One version is to be found on the facade of the University of Chicago's Social Science Research Building. An impromptu excursion into the history and uses of this inscription sheds light on the roles of measurement and quotation in ...
R K, Merton, D L, Sills, S M, Stigler
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A success story: history of ideas and science in Sweden

Intellectual News, 1997
Abstract The development of the discipline in Sweden called Ide- och lardomshistoria, in English traditionally translated as History of Ideas and Science, may be seen as a triumph. From its humble origins in the 1930S, it is now in a strong position in almost all Swedish universities, attracting many undergraduate and graduate students.
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Science Fiction and the Idea of History

2016
Just over half-way through his juvenile novel, Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert Heinlein gets his hero Thorby involved in a play. The play is a historical one, dramatising the origins of the queer, nomadic, matriarchal, spaceship-society of Free Traders among whom Thorby now finds himself, and is to be produced publicly at their great Gathering. But it is
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Science and the Idea of Church History, an American Debate

Church History, 1967
Students of American historiography value the latter part of the nineteenth century as a period in which distinctive ideas about the nature and procedures of historical research became explicit. More specifically, it was an era when the scholarly world was greatly influenced by the ideal of scientific objectivity and exactitude.
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