An Introduction to the Historiography of Science

Informationen zum Autor Emeritus Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen! Helge Kragh is the author of numerous books on physics and cosmology! including the first full-length biography of Paul Dirac! Dirac: A Scientific Biography. Among his other books are Cosmology and Controversy (1999)! Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century (2002)! and Conceptions of Cosmos (2013). Zusammenfassung This volume introduces the methodological and philosophical problems with which modern history of science is concerned! and offers a comprehensive review of significant historiographical viewpoints. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Aspects of the development of the history of science; 2. History of science; 3. Objectives and justification; 4. Elements of theory of history; 5. Objectivity in history; 6. Explanations; 7. Hypothetical history; 8. Structure and organization; 9. Anachronical and diachronical history of science; 10. Ideology and myths in the history of science; 11. Sources; 12. Evaluation of source materials; 13. Scientists' histories; 14. Experimental history of science; 15. The biographical approach; 16. Prosopography; 17. Scientometric historiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Helge Kragh, Helge S. Kragh, Professor Helge S. Kragh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.1989
• EAN: 9780521389211
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38921-1
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, History of Science