This is an analytical introduction to key historical and philosophical moments in the history of science, in twenty-two sections, written by a remarkably accomplished collection of authors at the forefronts of the disci plines of history and philosophy of science.
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"... rather unexpectedly eccentric, though fascinating, volume." Choice
"A History of Scientific Thought is the work of a group of historians, philosophers, sociologists, and scientists united by Michel Serres's ideal of a new conception of history. It is a conception that shuns the vision of an inevitable, linear development of science, in favour of one that stresses complexity and contingency. The result is a series of perspectives on key episodes in the history of science since antiquity that exhilaratingly questions our assumptions about the nature of scientific change and the ways in which its history should be written. No episode, as this book shows, has a single history. Each, instead, has a multiplicity of possible histories between which, challengingly, we are free to choose." Robert Fox, Modern History Faculty, Oxford
"A book full of stimulating insights, something to be recommended to students or to the general reader." Nature
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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