Making natural knowledge: constructivism and the history of science

"In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a p...

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Main Author: Goliński, Jan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
Edition:1. publ.
Series:The Cambridge history of science
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Summary:"In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradition of the history of science as a story of steady and autonomous progress. Golinski has written a sympathetic but critical survey of this exciting field of research, at a level that can be appreciated by students or anyone else who wants in introduction to contemporary thinking in the development of the sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIV, 236 S. Ill.
ISBN:0521444713
0521449138

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