The Natural History Museum today celebrates construction commencing at its new state-of-the-art collections, research and digitisation centre.

This distinction is revelatory of historical science. I argue that at least sometimes which strategy is appropriate is not a pragmatic issue, but turns on the nature of the target. Moreover, the ...

A professor researches historical themes like WWII in science fiction pulps, facing challenges with digital archives, and ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

It is an empirical question that each historical science attempts to answer. Philosophers should examine how paradigmatic cases of historical science handled underdetermination or utilized ...

Science history isn’t a “triumphant march”—it’s sloppy, messy, and full of stops and starts. Meet the people who tell that story.

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

AS its title leads us to suppose, this interesting volume is a plea for the recognition of folklore as a historical science. Seeing that the barrier between history and folklore is still unbroken ...

The history of science is much more than a chronology of scientific facts and theories. Access to informal sources is essential for understanding the personal, political and social context in ...