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Renaissance and Early Modern Science

Renaissance and Early Modern Science 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius (successor of "Annali") Brill

Renaissance and Early Modern Science

Nuncius (successor of "Annali") , Volume 28 (1): 232 – Jan 1, 2013

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0394-7394
eISSN
1825-3911
DOI
10.1163/18253911-02801012
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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

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