Table of Contents:
“…PART I: HISTORY OF MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 1: Louis Paul Cailletet, the Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of an "In-between Discipline": Low-temperature Research / Faidra Papanelopoulou -- Chapter 2: Lindemann and Einstein: The Oxford Connexion / Robert Fox -- Chapter 3: Einstein and Hilbert / John Stachel -- Chapter 4: Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum Revolution / Sylvan Schweber and Gal BenPorat -- PART II: STEP MATTERS -- Chapter 5: Centres and Peripheries Revisited: STEP and the Mainstream Historiography of Science / Agusti Nieto-Galan -- Chapter 6: At the Center and the Periphery: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Botanizes in Crete / Lorraine Daston -- Chapter 7: Boscovich in Britain / John Heilbron -- Chapter 8: Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European Identity / Manolis Patiniotis -- Chapter 9: The Non-introduction of Low-temperature Physics in Spain: Julio Palacios and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes / Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron -- Chapter 10: Beyond Borders in the
History of Science Education / Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez -- PART III: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 11: Probable Reasoning and Its Novelties / Ian Hacking -- Chapter 12: Reductionism and the Relation between Chemistry and Physics / Hasok Chang -- Chapter 13: The Internal-External Distinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-century Philosophy of Science / Gürol Irzik -- Chapter 14: Concepts out of Theoretical Contexts / Theodore Arabatzis and Nancy Nersessian -- PART IV: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MUSINGS -- Chapter 15: Globalization of Knowledge in History and its Normative Challenges / Jürgen Renn -- Chapter 16: The Global and the Local in the Study of the Humanities / Rivka Feldhay -- Chapter 17: On Scientific Biography and Biographies of Scientists / Helge Kragh -- Chapter 18: Biography and the
History of Science / Mary Jo Nye -- Chapter 19: Different Undertakings, Common Practices: Some Directions for the
History of Science / Ana Simões -- PART V: BEYOND
HISTORY OF SCIENCE: MATHEMATICS, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- Chapter 20: The Meaning of Hypostasis in Diophantus' Arithmetica / Jean Christianidis -- Chapter 21: On the Hazardousness of the Concept "Technology": Notes on a Conversation between the
History of Science and the History of Technology / Aristotle Tympas -- Chapter 22: Wireless at the Bar: Experts, Circuits and Marconi's Inventions in Patent Disputes in Early Twentieth-century Britain / Efstathios Arapostathis -- Chapter 23: Curating the European University / Hans Jörg Rheinberger -- Chapter 24: Can Science Make Peace with the Environment: Science, Power, Exploitation / Angelo Baracca.…”
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