Описание
Edited just before the late twentieth-century boom in the history of science,
the Taton set quickly became dated. During the 1990s, Roy Porter began
editing the very useful Fontana History of Science (published in the United
States as the Norton History of Science), with volumes devoted to a single
discipline and written by a single author.
The Cambridge History of Science comprises eight volumes, the first four
arranged chronologically from antiquity through the eighteenth century, the
latter four organized thematically and covering the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Eminent scholars from Europe and North America, who together
form the editorial board for the series, edit the respective volumes:
Volume 1: Ancient Science, edited by Alexander Jones, University of Toronto,
and Liba Taub, University of Cambridge
Volume 2: Medieval Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Michael H.
Shank, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Volume3: Early Modern Science, edited by Katharine Park, Harvard University,
and Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science, edited by Roy Porter, late of Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, edited by Mary Jo
Nye, Oregon State University
Volume 6: The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences, edited by Peter J. Bowler,
Queen’s University of Belfast, and John V. Pickstone, University of Manchester
Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences, edited by Theodore M. Porter, University
of California, Los Angeles, and Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University
Volume 8: Modern Science in National and International Context, edited by Ronald
L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Hugh Richard Slotten,
University of Otago, and David N. Livingstone, Queen’s University of Belfast
Our collective goal is to provide an authoritative, up-to-date account of
science – from the earliest literate societies in Mesopotamia and Egypt to
the end of the twentieth century – that even nonspecialist readers will find
engaging. Written by leading experts from every inhabited continent, the
essays in The Cambridge History of Science explore the systematic investigation
of nature and society, whatever it was called. (The term “science” did not
acquire its present meaning until early in the nineteenth century.) Reflecting
the ever-expanding range of approaches and topics in the history of science,
the contributing authors explore non-Western as well as Western science,
applied as well as pure science, popular as well as elite science, scientific
practice as well as scientific theory, cultural context as well as intellectual
content, and the dissemination and reception as well as the production of
scientific knowledge. George Sarton would scarcely recognize this collaborative effort as the history of science, but we hope we have realized his vision.
David C. Lindberg
Ronald L. Numbers
xviii General Editors’ Preface
Детали
- Год издания
- 2018
- Format