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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1994

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048142644

Full citation:

Kostas Gavroglu, Jean Christianidis, Efthymios Nicolaidis (eds), Trends in the historiography of science, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Trends in the historiography of science

Contents

Styles of scientific thinking or reasoning

a new analytical tool for historians and philosophers of the sciences

Ian Hacking

31-48

Rational versus sociological reductionism

Imre Lakatos and the Edinburgh school

Theodore Arabatzis

177-192

Is mathematics ahistorical?

an attempt to an answer motivated by Greek mathematics

Sabetai Unguru

203-219

The infinite in Leibniz's mathematics

the historiographical method of comprehension in context

Eberhard Knobloch

265-278

John Landen

first attempt for the algebrization of infinitesimal calculus

Christine Phili

279-293

Unification, geometry and ambivalence

Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen community

Skuli Sigurdsson

355-367

Reopening the texts of romantic science

the language of experience in J. W. Ritter's Beweis

Stuart Walker Strickland

385-396

History of science and history of mathematization

the example the science of motion at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries

Michel Blay

405-420

Archaeoastronomy in Greece

data, problems and perspectives

Maria K. Papathanassiou

433-443