Herbert Butterfield : essays on the history of science

Author(s)

• Butterfield, Herbert, Sir
• Schweizer, Karl W.

Bibliographic Information

Herbert Butterfield : essays on the history of science

edited, with an introduction by Karl W. Schweizer

E. Mellen Press, c1998

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays presents Herbert Butterfield's insights into and ideas concerning the history of science. The introduction analyzes the central ideas and themes running through the essays.

Table of Contents

• Essays by Herbert Butterfield: the history of science and the study of history
• science and history
• the importance of the history of science
• the historian and the history of science
• place of the scientific revolution in the history of thought
• the scientific revolution
• Renaissance art and modern science.

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Details

• NCID: BA85411368
• ISBN:
  • 0773482644
• LCCN: 98040049
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lewiston
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 138 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q125
  • DC21 : 509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- History
  • LCSH : Butterfield, Herbert, Sir, 1900- -- Knowledge -- Science