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The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialties, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out on positions of their own. The definitive reference work on the history of the sciences. Up-to-date coverage and interpretation by leading scholars.
Jun 15, 2023 · The history of science and its historiography present very positive founding characteristics represented by the academic diversity of the historians of science, most of whom have a predominant background in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.
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At the end of the century, history of science has addressed the formation of the global (and extra-global) reach of science, and historians have linked the expansion of science to large-scale processes such as industrialisation, colonialism and imperialism.
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Nov 30, 2009 · Summary. The legitimate criticism of the objectivity of historical facts is more concerned with when an occurrence is historical than with when it is a fact. It does not give grounds for doubts as to whether, after all, objectively true statements of fact about the past can actually be established. It is a fact that Caesar crossed the Rubicon ...
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The earliest known use of the verb outrival is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for outrival is from 1622, in a text by Thomas Dekker, playwright and pamphleteer, and Philip Massinger, playwright.
This paper examines the official definition of science, and its construction, over the period 1920-2000. The definition of science as research owes much of its origin to statistics.
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Jun 24, 2009 · 1. The emergence of science.--v. 2. The scientific and industrial revolutions.--v. 3. The natural sciences in our time.--v. 4. The social sciences: conclusion. Access-restricted-item.
