Trends in the Historiography of Science

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Charting the Scientific Community....Pages 1-14
Theory and Practice in Early Modern Physics....Pages 15-30
Styles of Scientific Thinking or Reasoning: A New Analytical Tool for Historians and Philosophers of the Sciences....Pages 31-48
Kinds and (In)Commensurability....Pages 49-63
Types of Discourse and the Reading of the History of the Physical Sciences....Pages 65-86
On Demarcations between Science in Context and the Context of Science....Pages 87-105
On the Harmful Effects of Excessive Anti-Whiggism....Pages 107-119
Issues in the Historiography of Post-Byzantine Science....Pages 121-127
Social Environment, Foundations of Science, and the Possible Histories of Science....Pages 129-137
Scientific Discoveries as Historical Artifacts....Pages 139-148
Selection, System and Historiography....Pages 149-160
Can the History of Instrumentation Tell us Anything About Scientific Practice?....Pages 161-168
The One in the Philosophy of Proclus: Logic Versus Metaphysics....Pages 169-175
Rational Versus Sociological Reductionism: Imre Lakatos and the Edinburgh School....Pages 177-192
Sociocultural Factors and Historiography of Science....Pages 193-201
Is Mathematics Ahistorical? An Attempt to an Answer Motivated by Greek Mathematics....Pages 203-219
The Story of the Discovery of Incommensurability, Revisited....Pages 221-235
On the History of Indeterminate Problems of the First Degree in Greek Mathematics....Pages 237-247
On the Justification of the Method of Historical Interpretation....Pages 249-264
The Infinite in Leibniz’s Mathematics — The Historiographical Method of Comprehension in Context....Pages 265-278
John Landen: First Attempt for the Algebrization of Infinitesimal Calculus....Pages 279-293
Historiographical Trends in the Social History of Mathematics and Science....Pages 295-315
The Conception of the Scientific Research Programs and the Real History of Mathematics....Pages 317-325
Scientists and the State: The Legacy of World War II....Pages 327-354
Unification, Geometry and Ambivalence: Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen Community....Pages 355-367
The Two-Dimensional View of the History of Chemistry....Pages 369-377
The Problem of Method in the Study of the Influence a Philosophy has on Scientific Practice. The Case of Thermoelectricity....Pages 379-384
Reopening the Texts of Romantic Science: The Language of Experience in J. W. Ritter’s Beweis ....Pages 385-396
Problems and Methodology of Exploring the Scientific Thought During the Greek Enlightenment (1750–1821)....Pages 397-404
History of Science and History of Mathematization: The Example the Science of Motion at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries....Pages 405-420
The Artistic Culture of the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern European Science....Pages 421-432
Archaeoastronomy in Greece: Data, Problems and Perspectives....Pages 433-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-460