Category
page 1Historiography of science
philosophy of science
branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science
paradigm shift
fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.
science studies
interdisciplinary research area that seeks to situate scientific expertise in broad social, historical, and philosophical contexts
history of science and technology
aspect of history regarding the socio-methodical interactions of matter and its fields and branches
Strong programme
School of thought within the sociology of scientific knowledge focused on community
science wars
academic dispute in American philosophy of science which took place in the 1990s
historiography of science
History of History of Science
mechanism
belief that natural wholes are composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other
Planck's principle
principle that scientific change is generational
sociology of the history of science
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
reference work with biographies of scientists
Conflict thesis
concept in history of science
Albert Einstein Archives
archive with Einstein papers

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
two-volume biographical dictionary
Continuity thesis
the thesis that there was no radical discontinuity between the intellectual development of the Middle Ages and the developments in the Renaissance and early modern period