Science and Its History
A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science
Authors: Agassi, Joseph
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Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a revised and updated with responses to these reviews and with many additional chapters, some already classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the author’s innovative way of writing fresh and engaging chapters in the history of the natural sciences.
- Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Chroniclers in the Courts of Science: Preliminary Essays on the Traditions and the History of Science
Pages 1-118
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Towards an Historiography of Science
Pages 119-242
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Historiographic essays
Pages 243-334
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Historical Essays
Pages 335-500
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Science and Its History
- Book Subtitle
- A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science
- Authors
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- Joseph Agassi
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 253
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-5632-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-5632-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-5631-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-7414-0
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 514
- Topics