Handbook for the Historiography of Science [1 ed.] 9783031275104, 9783031275098

Table of contents :
Series Preface
Volume Preface
Contents
Part I Key Authors for the Historiography of Science
1 Pierre Duhem:​ Between the Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History
Fábio Rodrigo Leite
2 The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought
Marlon Salomon
3 Gaston Bachelard and Historical Epistemology:​ A New Perspective for the History of Science in the Twentieth Century
Fábio Ferreira de Almeida
4 The Case of Life in the Historiography of Modern Science:​ Canguilhem’s “Biophilosophy”
Charles Wolfe and Giulia Gandolfi
5 Ludwik Fleck:​ Thought Style and Thought Collective in the Historiography of Science
Mauro L. Condé and Paweł Jarnicki
6 John Desmond Bernal and “Bernalism”
Daniele Cozzoli
7 Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy for the Historiography of Science
Mauro L. Condé
8 Bourdieu and the Social History of Scientific Reason
Gerardo Ienna
9 History of Science as History of Our Best Errors:​ Joseph Agassi’s Critical Historiography of Science
Stefano Gattei
10 Embodied Boundaries of Historical Studies of Science:​ A Vision of Steven Shapin’s Historiography
María de los Ángeles Martini
11 Ian Hacking’s Contributions to Historical Reflection on Science
María Laura Martínez
12 Lorraine Daston’s Historical Epistemology:​ Style, Program, and School
Gabriel da Costa Ávila and Tiago Santos Almeida
Part II Concepts and Conceptions in the Historiography of Science
13 The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions:​ A Philosophical Reflection
Yafeng Shan
14 Historical Epistemology:​ A German Connection
Juan A. Queijo Olano and Antonio A. P. Videira
15 The French Style in the Philosophy of the Sciences
Jean-François Braunstein
16 The Beginning of the Epistemological History of Science:​ Gaston Bachelard’s Responsibility
Enrico Castelli Gattinara
Part III Historiography of Science from Modern Science to Contemporary Scientific World
17 Early Historiography of Science
Michael Segre
18 On the Interpretations of the Cultural and Techno-Scientific Significance of Portuguese Navigations:​ A Historiographic Approach
João Príncipe
19 “The Herodotus of Geometry”:​ Montucla and the Birth of a General Historiography of Science in the French Enlightenment
Giorgio Matteoli
20 Leonhard Euler’s Works on the Motion of the Moon:​ A Historiographica​l Shift
Dmitri Starostin
21 The Emergence of a Sophisticated Historiography of Science in Continental Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century
Stefano Bordoni
22 Feynman’s Frameworks on Nanotechnology in Historiographica​l Debate
Raffaele Pisano and Andrea Durlo
23 Cosmopolitical Propositions:​ A Historiographic Analysis of Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on Sciences
Nathan Willig Lima
Part IV Historiography of Science and Related Fields
24 Science, Religion, and the Creation of Historiographica​l Categories
Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis
25 Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa
26 Historiography of Science and Gender
Andrea Reichenberger
27 Historiography of Science and the Relationship Between History and the History of Science
Andrea Mara R. S. Vieira
28 Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History:​ Toward a Rapprochement Between Disciplines That Never Ruptured
Matt Waldschlagel
Index