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  1. Setting Up A Discipline, Ii: British history of science and “the end of ideology”, 1931–1948.Anna-K. Mayer - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (1):41-72.
    For the history of science the 1940s were a transformative decade, when salient scholars like Herbert Butterfield or Alexandre Koyré set out to shape postwar culture by promoting new standards for understanding science. Some years ago I placed these developments in a tradition of enduring arts–science tensions and the contemporary notion that previous, “scientistic”, historical practices needed to be confronted with disinterested codes of historical craft. Here, I want to further explore the ideological dimensions of the processes through which the (...)
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  • The Problem of Apodictic Proof in Early Seventeenth-Century Mechanics. Galileo, Guevara, and the Jesuits.William A. Wallace - 1989 - Science in Context 3 (1):67-87.
    The ArgumentThe argument developed herein, a countertheme to the Merton thesis, is that the ideal of science pursued by Galileo and his contemporaries in Italy would be unaffected by their Catholic faith if it could achieve apodictic proof in the subject of its investigations, in which case it would attain truth – the very goal sought by that faith. Unfortunately such proof was hard to come by in early seventeenth-century mechanics. A case study is proposed to show Galileo's difficulty demonstrating (...)
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  • Einführung in das Thema.Dietrich Von Engelhardt - 1987 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 10 (3):129-139.
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  • Discipline and bounding: The history and sociology of science as seen through the externalism-internalism debate.Steven Shapin - 1992 - History of Science 30 (90):333-369.
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  • The Joint Establishment of the World Federation of Scientific Workers and of UNESCO After World War II.Patrick Petitjean - 2008 - Minerva 46 (2):247-270.
    The World Federation of Scientific Workers (WFScW) and UNESCO share roots in the Social Relations of Science (SRS) movements and in the Franco-British scientific relations which developed in the 1930s. In this historical context (the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism and the Nazi use of science, the social and intellectual fascination for the USSR), a new model of scientific internationalism emerged, where science and politics mixed. Many progressive scientists were involved in the war efforts against Nazism, and tried to (...)
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  • Science in the Church.J. L. Heilbron - 1989 - Science in Context 3 (1):9-28.
    The ArgumentA brief review of the Merton thesis shows that its restriction to England is arbitrary. An example from the historiography of modern physics suggests the possible payoff of an ecumenical Merton thesis and the means to explore it. A summary of the careers of men who practiced science literally in the church – men who built meridian lines in Italian cathedrals – indicates the range of social support of astronomical studies by Catholic institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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  • Transposing the Merton Thesis: Apostolic Spirituality and the Establishment of the Jesuit Scientific Tradition.Steven J. Harris - 1989 - Science in Context 3 (1):29-65.
    The ArgumentDespite more than fifty years of debate on the Merton thesis, there have been few attempts to substantiate Merton's argument through empirically based comparative studies. This study of the Jesuit scientific tradition is intended to serve as a test of some of Merton's central claims.Jesuit science is remarkable for its scope and longevity, and is distinguished by its markedly empirical and utilitarian orientation. In this paper I examine the ideological structure of the Society of Jesus and find at its (...)
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  • The Hessen-Grossman thesis: An attempt at rehabilitation.Gideon Freudenthal - 2005 - Perspectives on Science 13 (2):166-193.
    : The work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman on the emergence of early modern science is an attempt at a historical sociology of science and a historical epistemology of scientific knowledge. One of their theses is elaborated here, namely that early modern mechanics developed in the study of contemporary technology. In particular I discuss the thesis that the replacement of the Aristotelian concept of motion by the modern general and mathematical concept developed in the study of transmission machines. In (...)
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  • Separate spheres and public places: Reflections on the history of science popularization and science in popular culture.Roger Cooter & Stephen Pumfrey - 1994 - History of Science 32 (97):237-267.
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