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Kathleen P. Long (ed.), Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture . Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. xvi + 313 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-6971-5. In 2000, in presenting the massive Reader’s Guide to the History of Science (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers) Arne Hessenbruch traced a brief history of the historiography of science, pointing to the 1980s as to the moment of transition from intellectual to social history – i.e., of the impact of the sociology of science on traditional historiography. The 1990s witnessed the emerging role of feminism, and then the forceful appearance of the issue of gender. According to Hessenbruch, the question of gender in science is the subject that most contributed to the transformation of scientific historiography. In fact, research on the relationship between gender and science, the development of feminist approaches in science history and philosophy, as in the writing of scientific biographies; the questioning of the influence of sexual orientation of a natural philosopher on the kind of science he/she practices, and the presence of biases in the very foundation of a discipline, or of a newly established branch of a scientific discipline – all these factors have suggested new methodologies and have helped research to focus
Nuncius (successor of "Annali") – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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