Pamela H. Smith University of Chicago Press, $35 (paper) ccording to a familiar story,
science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air …

Driven by an unquenchable thirst, the human spirit seeks an explanation of the world. In this
fascinating study, a noted historian of science traces the course of the ceaseless yearning …

Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century'was an innovative concept
that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a …

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that
discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and …

i The invitation to deliver a keynote address at the XVII International Congress of History of
Science has been for me a source of both pride and pleasure, the more so because it …

Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The
Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the …

Between the two World Wars an extensive body of writings appeared in the United States
explicitly or implicitly on the historical development of the sciences. I am not referring to the …

Once a highly respected field that focused on the conceptual evolution of scientific ideas, the
history of sci-ence is losing its grip on science, leaning heavily on social history, and …