Fashioning the Discipline: History of Science in the European Intellectual Tradition

Minerva 44 (4):410-432 (2006)
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This paper offers personal reflections on the fashioning of the history of science in Europe. It presents the history of science as a discipline emerging in the twentieth century from an intellectual and political context of great complexity, and concludes with a plea for tolerance and pluralism in historiographical methods and approaches

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