March 2019
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its special issue “Theses on the Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Reappraisal of the Origins of Modern Science”.
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God, oil painting by the Polish artist Jan Matejko, finished in 1873.
Since the 1930s a whole series of innovations which transformed mechanical arts and natural philosophy of the 16th and 17th century into modern natural sciences was subsumed under the label of “the Scientific Revolution”. The term soon gained considerable popularity due to the works of A. Koyré, H. Butterfield, A. R. Hall, M. Boas Hall and many other historians of early modern science.
The main target of this special issue is a re-evaluation of the earlier conceptions that regarded the Scientific Revolution as a key concept for a systematic understanding of modern science as a whole. See the full call for papers!
Read in Manguinhos:
The new history of science – Dominique Pestre (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) offers some of his thoughts on the role of science and knowledge in our contemporary world.
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its special issue “Theses on the Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Reappraisal of the Origins of Modern Science”.
