scholarly journals International collaboration in the history of science of Central Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 347-353
Author(s):  
Soňa Štrbaňova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
International History ◽  
Czech Academy ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the last ten years, approximately, we could witness an evolution in informal international collaboration focusing on shared and interconnected history of science in the Habsburg Monarchy and in Central Europe in general. This effort, which includes mainly historians of science from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, has already produced a number of important results and contributed to the thematization of some timeless topics of history of sciences such as, for instance, nationalization and internationalization of science. In the context of this cooperation, the seminar of Jan Surman, a historian of science of Polish descent, held at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague in May 2015, concentrated on the formation of national scientific terminologies. It also underlined the necessity and usefulness of international collaboration in achieving a deeper understanding of the “national” histories of science, which cannot be separated from the “international” history.

Book reviews

2018 ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
L. M. Besov
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
State Institution ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Fundamental Science ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Presidents of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for 100 years of its existence: Scientific and organizational cont ribution to the progress of fundamental science / VN Gamalia, Yu. K. Duplenko, V. I. Onoprienko, S. P. Ruda, V. S. Savchuk; for ed. V.I. Onoprienko; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; State Institution "G. M. Dobrov Institute Research of Scientific-Technical Potential and History of Science". - Kyiv: SE "Inf.-analytical Agency ", 2018. - 215 p.

scholarly journals PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN PORTUGAL

Nuncius ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA SIMÕES ◽  
MARIA PAULA DIOGO ◽  
ANA CARNEIRO
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The History of Science and the History of Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-90
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Manhattan Project ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
History Of Knowledge ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

The article examines the state of the history of science as a discipline and its objectives in the context of its origins and current transformations. The establishment of this discipline and its assumptions about the nature of science together with its goals and structure are briefly discussed. The history of science became a discipline only at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, and its start is associated with the work of chemist James Conant, a high-level administrator in Manhattan project who was also president of Harvard University and a high-ranking bureaucrat. It was based also on the narrative developed by Alfred North Whitehead, Edwin Burtt, Alexandre Koyré and other historians of science, which claimed modern science was the creator of modernity and a necessary condition for the geopolitical domination of the West. In that understanding, modern science meant science since the time of Galileo and Newton. The author provides a critical analysis of this foundation narrative for the discipline and of its consequences while showing how contemporary history of science has overcome it. The contradiction between modernism and historicism has been resolved in favor of the latter. A key role in this was played by the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, which held the potential to undo the presumed monolithic unity of science by rejecting teleology and introducing incommensurability and discontinuities into the historical process. By rejecting explanation of the knowledge of other times and places in terms of modern science, the discipline faced a radical multiplication of independent types of knowledge. This was facilitated by the reorientation to the study of knowledge practices that took place in the 1980s. As a result, the subject matter of the history of science began to erode, and this launched discussion of the prospects for a transition to a history of knowledge based on the study of practices. The sweep of this change of vision is illustrated by the example of classifying sciences according to both their subject matter and the similarities in their research practices. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the new discipline along with its prospects and the challenges it faces are discussed.

Węgry i relacje polsko-węgierskie w historiografii PRL – wybrane aspekty

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-291
Author(s):  
Tomasz Siewierski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Military History ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of

This article aims at a panoramic presentation of the history of historiography of Hungary and Polish-Hungarian relations, during the communist period. It presents the inter-war traditions of research on this subject and the most important achievements of historians working in after war period, on the history of Central Europe. Particular emphasis was placed on the disciplines of historiography closely related to the specificity of research in the PRL: the Hungarian contemporary history, the history of Polish-Hungarian relations, military history, especially the history of World War II, and the synthesis and handbook (W. Felczak, J. Reychman). The paper discusses also work of same forgotten historians (E. Kozłowski).

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