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Geoffrey Cantor

British Journal for the History of Science 30 (1):5-23 (1997)

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The past as a work in progress.Patricia Fara - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (1):1-15.details Originating as a presidential address during the seventieth birthday celebrations of the British Society for the History of Science, this essay reiterates the society's long-standing commitment to academic autonomy and international cooperation. Drawing examples from my own research into female scientists and doctors during the First World War, I explore how narratives written by historians are related to their own lives, both past and present. In particular, I consider the influences on me of my childhood reading, my experiences as a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The Complementarity Between the Collective and the Individual.Anja Skaar Jacobsen - 2008 - Minerva 46 (2):195-214.details Besides his activities as a theoretical physicist, the Belgian Léon Rosenfeld cultivated and showed a lively concern for history of science since his student years. This paper is a study of his publications, correspondence and other endeavours in history of science, mainly during the early Cold War period, in order to explore his essentially Marxist views on science and society and how they differed from those of other Marxists scholars, most notably John D. Bernal and Boris Hessen. Download Export citation Bookmark
Presidential Address ‘Some years of cudgelling my brains about the nature and function of science museums’: Frank Sherwood Taylor and the public role of the history of science.Tim Boon - 2023 - British Journal for the History of Science 56 (3):283-307.details Frank Sherwood Taylor was director of the Science Museum London for just over five years from October 1950. He was the only historian of science ever to have been director of this institution, which has always ridden a tightrope between advocacy of science and advocacy of its history, balancing differently at different points in its history. He was also president of the BSHS from 1951 to 1953. So what happened when a historian got his hands on the nation's pre-eminent public (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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