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On the History of Probability Theory
The history of probability begins with Pascal and Fermat on games. This history of probability delineates changes in our understanding of basic...
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The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret
Probably scholars would never know of either Socrates or Sozomen had it not been for their histories. Theodoret of Cyrrhus was, in contrast, a...
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From Indian History to the History of Civilisations
The final decade of Panikkar’s life was a period of intense intellectual revision, in the context of growing concerns for Indian unity and foreign...
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Historiography of Science and the Relationship Between History and the History of Science
This chapter establishes a theoretical reflection on the scientific field of the historiography of science as a fundamental element for a critical...
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Historiography of Science and the Relationship Between History and the History of Science
This chapter establishes a theoretical reflection on the scientific field of the historiography of science as a fundamental element for a critical...
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History of Science as History of Our Best Errors: Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science
In his classic Towards an Historiography of Science (1963) – and in other related works spanning over his entire career (including Faraday as a...
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History of Science as History of Our Best Errors: Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science
In his classic Towards an Historiography of Science (1963) – and in other related works spanning over his entire career (including Faraday as a...
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History as Legitimacy
Historical narratives are interwoven in all categories of secular claims to territory. Nevertheless, “history” merits separate attention since it has...
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An Agenda-Setting History
Following the survey of the book and the main historical stages of the history of the human sciences in the modern university outlined in the preface...
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History of Rationalities Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond
Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'. This book presents, compares, and...
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Literature of Girmitiya: History, Culture, and Identity
One of the main objectives of this book is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and...
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Reconsidering Early Modern Jewry: Reflections on the Methodology of Legal History
This article seeks to clarify the methodology of Jewish legal history and illustrate how the historical examination of Jewish law serves as a...
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The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History
Beginning in the nineteenth century, scientists speculated that the Pleistocene megafauna—species such as the giant ground sloth, wooly mammoth, and...
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The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought
This chapter endeavors to reconstitute the set of conditions in the period between the two world wars that made Alexandre Koyré’s work on the history...
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The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought
This chapter endeavors to reconstitute the set of conditions in the period between the two world wars that made Alexandre Koyré’s work on the history...
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Notes for a New History
Siep Stuurman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The central themes in his research and teaching...
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The Formal and the Informal in the History of Socialist Scholarly Interconnectedness in East Central Europe
With the emergence of Olympic internationalism, scholarly networking in East Central Europe came to be dominated by the idea of scholars representing...
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Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History: Toward a Rapprochement Between Disciplines That Never Ruptured
It has been observed that the history of science and the philosophy of science have largely gone in very different directions in recent decades. I...
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The Beginning of the Epistemological History of Science: Gaston Bachelard’s Responsibility
This chapter seeks to show that the historicization of epistemology is a decisive moment in the transformation of twentieth-century French philosophy...
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History of the Earth Sciences from the South
The history of the earth sciences has predominantly revolved around the accumulation of knowledge within north Atlantic institutions and networks....