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Is there something important to learn from the history of science about knowledge and the mind? Do habits and emotions play a significant role in science? To what extent do present concerns and knowledge distort our understanding of past texts and practices? These are crucial questions in current debates, but they are not new. This monograph evaluates the answers to these and other questions that Hélène Metzger (1889-1944) provided. Metzger, who was the leading historian of chemistry of her generation, left us unparalleled reflections on the theory, practice and aims of history writing. Despite her influence on subsequent generations of thinkers, including Thomas Kuhn, this is the first full-length monographs on her. Beginning with an overview of her life, and the challenges faced by a Jewish woman working within academia, the book goes on to discuss the most important themes of her historiography, and her engagement with other disciplines, notably general history, philosophy, ethnology and religious studies. The book also explores both Metzger's immediate legacy and the relevance of her ideas for a host of current debates in science studies. The Appendix includes four of her historiographical papers, translated into English for the first time.

Historians of science --- Women philosophers --- Science --- Science --- Science --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Historiography.

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Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" offers an insightful and engaging theory of science that speaks to scholars across many disciplines. Though initially widely misunderstood, it had a profound impact on the way intellectuals and educated laypeople thought about science. K. Brad Wray traces the influences on Kuhn as he wrote Structure, including his 'Aristotle epiphany', his interactions, and his studies of the history of chemistry. Wray then considers the impact of Structure on the social sciences, on the history of science, and on the philosophy of science, where the problem of theory change has set the terms of contemporary realism/anti-realism debates. He examines Kuhn's frustrations with the Strong Programme sociologists' appropriations of his views, and debunks several popular claims about what influenced Kuhn as he wrote Structure. His book is a rich and comprehensive assessment of one of the most influential works in the modern sciences.

Science --- Philosophers --- Historians of science --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Sciences --- Philosophes --- Historiens des sciences --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Kuhn, Thomas S. --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel

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Dijksterhuis, Eduard J. --- Historians of science --- Science --- Historiography. --- Philosophy. --- Dijksterhuis, E. J. --- -Science --- -Historians of science --- -Science historians --- Historians --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Historiography --- Philosophy --- -Historiography --- Dijksterhuis, E. J., --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Science historians --- Dijksterhuis E. J. --- Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan --- ديكسترهوز، ا. ج. --- Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan. --- Netherlands --- Biography --- Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan,

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Ce volume s'articule autour de la problématique suivante : pourquoi traduire, pour qui, comment ? Le besoin de traduction naît de la difficulté à comprendre le texte dans sa langue originelle; pour autant, faut-il connaître la langue et/ou la science pour traduire ? Les auteurs contribuant à cet ouvrage s'interrogent sur la méthode à suivre pour traduire une langue technique avec le plus de justesse possible et éviter les écueils linguistiques et épistémologiques. Les recherches menées aboutissent à la conclusion que la traduction de textes scientifiques est une entreprise intellectuelle complexe, qui nécessite une profonde réflexion sur le monde scientifique. Les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage ont été présentées à l'occasion d'une journée d'études ; elles s'appuient sur l'histoire des sciences et des idées, la linguistique, la philosophie et la littérature, et analysent le travail de traduction à différentes époques et dans divers champs scientifiques tels que l'astronomie, la botanique, la physique et la chimie. En étudiant les problèmes liés à la traduction des travaux de Gemma Frisius, Isaac Newton, Cari von Linné ou Cari Wilhelm Scheele, et en suivant l'histoire de traducteurs tels que Nicole Oresme, Claude de Boissière ou Pierre Coste, nous comprenons mieux les pièges de la traduction scientifique. Des femmes, telles que Emilie du Châtelet ou Madame Picardet, ont également traduit des ouvrages de science. Leur apport à la diffusion des nouveaux savoirs scientifiques est majeur et fait d'elles d'authentiques femmes de science : ici, traduire la science, c'est faire de la science.

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