All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionar….

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very featu….

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they….

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of sci….

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of….