Presidential Address
Can the History of Science be History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8394171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Rupert Hall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 207-220 |
| Publication date | 1969-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007087400009924 |
| OpenAlex | W2113181953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
It was in the closing year of the nineteenth century that Paul Tannery organized at an international historical congress the first international meeting devoted to the history of science. If antiquity would make a scholarly subject respectable, scholarship in the history of science must be beyond reproach; still earlier than Tannery and his colleagues in many European countries were the German historian of chemistry Kopp, and William Whewell, Master of Trinity; the eighteenth century had produced substantial works like those on mathematics and astronomy of Montucla and Delambre; Isaac Vossius and others virtually take these studies back to the Renaissance and Polydore Vergil. Just as in our day such classical scholars as Heiberg, Bailey, Housman, Drachman or Peck have chosen scientific texts as their subjects, so in the past, too, learning and science have met on this common ground. Few creative mathematicians of the seventeenth century thought that attention to the writings of Euclid or Archimedes was a waste of time
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2022 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |