Positioning the history of science / edited by Kostas Gavroglu and Jürgen Renn.

Dordrecht : Springer, [2007], ©2007.

vii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"compiled in the honor of an outstanding historian of science ... Sam Schweber" -- p. 1.

Positioning the history of science / Kostas Gavroglu and Jürgen Renn -- Big history? / Babak Ashraft -- Suggestions for the study of science / Stephen G. Brush -- Will Einstein still be the super-hero of physics history in 2050? / Tian Yu Cao -- For a history of knowledge / Olivier Darrigol -- Working in parallel, working together / Lorraine Daston -- Challenges in writing about twentieth century East Asian physicists / Dong-Won Kim (Jhu) -- Why should scientists become historians? / Raphael Falk and Ruma Falk -- From the social to the moral to the spiritual: the postmodern exaltation of the history of science / Paul Forman -- Between science and history / Evelyn Fox Keller -- The search for autonomy in history of science / Yves Gingras -- Without parallels?: averting a Schweberian dystopia / Michael D. Gordin -- The intellectual strengths of pluralism and diversity / Loren Graham -- On connoisseurship / John L. Heilbron -- Concerning energy / Steve Joshua Heims -- Reflections on a discipline / Erwin N. Hiebert -- The woman in Einstein's shadow / Gerald Holton -- The mutual embrace: institutions and epistemology / David Kaiser -- History, science and history of science / Helge Kragh -- Parallel lives and the history of science / Mary Jo Nye -- Discarding, dichotomies, creating community: Sam Schweber and Darwin studies / Diane B. Paul and John Beatty -- Public participation and industrial technoscience today: the difficult question of accountability / Dominique Pestre -- The character of truth / Joan Richards -- Schweber, physicist, historian and moral example / José M. Sánchez-Ron -- What's new in science? / Terry Shinn -- On the road / Skúli Sigurdsson -- Plutarchian versus Socratic biography / Thomas Söderqvist -- Problems not disciplines / John Stachel -- Physicist-historians / Roger H. Stuewer -- Letting the scientists back in / Stephen J. Weininger -- Science as history / M. Norton Wise -- Postscript / Sam Schweber.

Includes bibliographical references.