Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Publisher Provided Annotation The aim of the Fitzroy Dearborn Reader's Guides is to provide guidance to the secondary material in specific intellectual disciplines by means of essays that analyze, interpret & evaluate that material - providing the student, teacher, researcher & librarian with informed recommendations for further reading. THE READER'S GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE looks at the literature of science in some 600 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions & disciplines (mathematics), general themes (romantic science), & central concepts (paradigm & fact). The history of science is construed widely to include (for example) the history of medicine & the history of technology. An international team of some 200 historians of science have come together to produce this definitive guide to the literature of the scientific disciplines.