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Digital Futures in the History of Science and Technology
No full textIn my contribution to the round table, I’ll discuss my recent experience hosting the DS² (Digital Studies of Digital Science) conference, which was held online between March 15 and 18, 2021 (co-organized by Luca Rivelli). Our motivation in hosting the meeting was two-fold: on the one hand, to look at the ways in which the “digitization” of science itself has changed and will continue to change the study of science, and on the other hand, to expand the scope of disciplines that we normally consider to be implicated in “digital studies of science,” including scholars from the digital humanities more broadly, library science, corpus and computational linguistics, scientometrics, visualization, and so forth. I’ll use some reflections on the successes and shortcomings of the conference to think about the kinds of interdisciplinary knowledge creation that seem to be so central to the widespread use of digital tools in history of science and allied fields
EUI | History of Science
No full textThe History of Science working group is a non-official, student-led group aimed at bringing together PhD researchers with similar interests in History of Science. Thus, the group’s members engage with a wide coverage of topics ranging from natural history over imperial science to amateur inventions, from seventeenth-century France to Interwar Russia. In our blog, we wish to bring forward the diversity of research in History of Science, to seek for a broader understanding of history of science..
Carnap, Kuhn, and the history of science
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to respond to Thomas Uebel´s criticisms of my comments regarding the current revisionism of Carnap´s work and its relations to Kuhn. I begin by pointing out some misunderstandings in the interpretation of my article. I then discuss some aspects related to Carnap´s view of the history of science. First, I emphasize that it was not due to a supposed affinity between Kuhn´s conceptions and those of logical positivism that Kuhn was invited to write the monograph on the history of science for the Encyclopedia. Three other authors had been invited first, including George Sarton whose conception was entirely different from Kuhn´s. In addition, I try to show that Carnap attributes little importance to history of science. He seldom refers to it and, when he does, he clearly defends (like Sarton) a Whig or an “old” historiography of science, to which Kuhn opposes his “new historiography of science”. It is argued that this raises serious difficulties for those, like Uebel, who hold the view that Carnap includes the historical or the social within the rational
The second international summer school at the İstanbul museum of the history of science and technology
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Kuhn, Sarton, and the history of science
Get PDFThe scientific work of Leonardo da Vinci may have served as the main inspiration for the historical research of George Sarton. Although he never produced a work he felt was worthy of its subject, the little that he did write about Leonardo reveals the importance he attributed to him in the history of science. This is especially clear in Sarton´s treatment of Leonardo and a discovery he did not make: William Harvey´s discovery of blood circulation in the 17th Century. In this article, we refer to this particular episode to trace Sarton´s conception of the development of science. It is a conception that illustrates well the traditional historiographic perspective that is the target of Thomas Kuhn´s criticisms. Although Kuhn never wrote about Leonardo or Harvey, we aim to show that he clearly positioned himself contrary to Sarton, albeit indirectly, with respect to this particular historical episode, as well
Critical problems in the history of science : proceedings. /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Biology and social theory in the ninteenth century: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer / John C. Greene -- Commentaries on the papers of J. Walter Wilson / John C. Greene and Conway Zirkle -- The development of ideas in the structure of metals / Cyril Stanley Smith -- Structure of matter and chemical theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Marie Boas -- Commentaries on the papers of Cyril Stanley Smith and Marie Boas / Aaron I. Ihde.The place of the history of science in a liberal arts curriculum / Dorothy Stimson -- Commentaries on the papers of Dorothy Stimson and Henry Guerlac / I. Bernard Cohen, Marie Boas and Duane H.D. Roller -- The encyclopedie and the Jacobin philosophy of science: a study in ideas and consequences / Charles Gilispie -- The politics of science in the French revolution / L Pearce Williams -- Commentaries on the papers of Charles Gilispie and L. Pearce Williams / Henry Bertram Hill and Henry Guerlac -- Energy conservation as an example of simultaneous discovery / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Conservation and the concept of electrical charge: an aspect of philosophy in relation to physics in the ninteenth century / I.Bernard Cohen -- Commentaries on the papers of Thomas H. Kuhn and I. Bernard Cohen / Carl Boyer and Erwin Hiebert -- Biology attains maturity in the ninteenth century / J. Walter Wilson --^The scholar and the craftsman in the scientific revolution / Rupert Hall -- Commentaries... / Robert Merton and Francis Johnson -- The role of art in the scientific renaissance / Giorgio de Santillana -- Commentary on the papers of Rupert Hall and Giorgio de Santilana / A.C. Crombie -- The significance of medieval discussion of scientific method for the scientific revolution / A.C. Crombie -- The philosophy of science and the history of science / Joseph T. Clark -- Commentaries on the papers of A.C. Crombie and Joseph T. Clark / I.E.Drabkin and Ernest Nagel -- The origin of classical mechanics from Aristotle to Newton / E. J. Dijksterhaus -- Commentaries ... / Carl Boyer and Rupert Hall -- Contra-Copernicus: a critical re-estimation ofthe mathematical planetary theory of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler / Derek J. de S. Price -- Commentary... / Francis Johnson -- History of science for engineering students at Cornell / Henry Guerlac --
19th international congress of History of Science Book of abstracts. Scientific sections
No full textCentro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica (CINDOC). C/Joaquin Costa, 22. 28002 Madrid. SPAIN / CINDOC - Centro de Informaciòn y Documentaciòn CientìficaSIGLEESSpai
Review: Between Rhetoric and Reality: Astronomical Practices at the Observatory of the Amsterdam Society "Felix Meritis," 1786-1889
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