The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth‐Century Science. Based on a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2000. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Edited by Michael Friedman and , Alfred Nordmann. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $45.00. vi + 370 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐262‐06254‐2. 2006.

2007 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-141
Author(s):  
Michael Bradie
1971 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Sklair

The history, philosophy, sociology and even the science of science are by now thriving activities. This is in no way surprising; indeed if one examines the development of each of these approaches to the study of sciences, the surprising thing is that it emerged so comparatively recently. The history of science as an academic discipline tends to begin with a reference to Comte's grand scheme of the mid-nineteenth century, passing through Sarton's great pioneering work of the first half of the present century, largely embodied in the volumes of Isis (1913- ), founded, edited and in no small part written by Sarton himself. At present, so far as one can see, many historians of science are rethinking the great and fairly continuously progressive features of Sarton's account, and the emphasis is turning more and more to the discontinuities.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-467
Author(s):  
JAMES SECORD

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 1.0, hriOnline <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed 30 June 2005].Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth (eds.), Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. vi+358. ISBN 0-262-03318-6. £25.95 (hardback).Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan Topham (eds.), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+329. ISBN 0-521-83637-9. £45.00 (hardback).Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham (eds.), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media. The Nineteenth Century Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxv+296. ISBN 0-7546-3574-0. £47.50 (hardback).


1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin A. Russell ◽  
Shirley P. Russell

The periodical History of Science opened auspiciously in 1962 with an article by L. Pearce Williams on ‘The physical sciences in the first half of the nineteenth century: problems and sources’. He criticized the nearly exclusive reliance on printed sources then quite common in studies of Victorian science, concluded that much remained to be discovered and closed his paper with these words: What papers exist in private hands can only be guessed. I know of a trunk in an attic containing unpublished letters from Darwin, Huxley, Kolbe, Pasteur and a host of others. They are, unfortunately, not available to the scholar and there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of such boxes scattered through America and Europe. As they are discovered, catalogued and made available to scholars, the shape of nineteenth-century science will gradually lose its blurred outlines and the origins of modern science will become clear.


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