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Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
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Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 7
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Edward Gibbon's allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the
Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of
the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is
that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been
accepted by professional scientists and by historians of science
alike. For its practitioner, the history of a discipline displayed
above all the always difficult but fmally rewarding approach to a
truth which was incorporated in the discipline in its actual fonn.
Looking back, it was only too easy to distinguish those who erred
and heretics in the field from the few forerunners of true science.
On the one hand, the traditional history of science was told as a
story of hero and hero worship, on the other hand it was,
paradoxically enough, the constant attempt to remind the scientist
whom he should better forget. It is not surprising at all therefore
that the traditional history of science was a field of only minor
interest for the practitioner of a distinct scientific diSCipline
or specialty and at the same time a hardly challenging task for the
professional historian. Nietzsche had already described the
historian of science as someone who arrives late after
harvest-time: it is somebody who is only a tolerated guest at the
thanksgiving dinner of the scientific community .
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