Historians of science and the “Sobel Effect” por Govoni Paola

“…The present article analyses how only recently historians of science have fully realized the novelty the book represented. …”
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The Role of Historians of Science in Contemporary Society por Joseph Agassi

“…Introducing science historically can help solve many acute social and political problems. Historians of science can try to bring this about. Discussions of the social role of intellectuals (and of historians of science in particular) require a great deal of a sense of proportion, since most people are still barely educated, hardly familiar with science, much less with its history. …”
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Paolo Prodi (1932-2016). A Historian between Science and Politics por Pierangelo Schiera

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Archaeologist as a Historian of Science (according to historical and scientific publications by S. V. Kuzminykh) por Olga M. Melnikova

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La méthodologie : n’en faire qu’un discours ou bien reconnaître sa nécessité ? por Hervé Ferrière

“…Why would a historian of science read the work of the recently deceased legal historian Michael Stolleis ? …”
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Book Review. Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia por Ruly Darmawan, Noeranti Andanwerti

“…This book which entitles ‘Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia’ was written by Fenneke Sysling, a historian of science and Colonialism.  This book is published in 2016 by NUS Press, National University of Singapore, Singapore. …”
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Éva Vámos (1950–2015) (in Polish) por Ewa WYKA

“…The article describes synthetically the achievements of Professor Katalin Éva Vámos, Habilitated Doctor (22 May 1950 – 25 July 2015), a historian of science, museologist of science and technology, a longtime director of the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technologyand Transport in Budapest (MTESZ).…”
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Scientists' virtues matter. More than ever por Alessandro Delfanti

“…A moral history of a late modern vocation”, the social historian of science Steven Shapin addresses the public image of contemporary scientists, their virtues and vocations. …”
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What Can We Learn from the History of STS in Italy? A Few Hints for the Future por Giuliano Pancaldi

“…By recalling his own career as an historian of science and technology, the author sketches the history of Science and Technology Studies in Italy from their early steps in the 1970s and 1980s. …”
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Hvordan åpne for vitenskapshistorie i naturfagundervisning por Erik Knain

“…Texts from school textbooks, from a historian of science (Helge Kragh) and from a science sociologist (Bruno Latour) are discussed in order to point to key steps from product to process. …”
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Il tracollo culturale dell'Ellenismo: una lezione per il presente e un'allerta per il futuro della scienza por Redazione MediaGEO

“… In this interview with Archeomatica, Lucio Russo, a physicist, mathematician, and historian of science, delves into a critical turning point in human history: the abrupt collapse of Hellenistic scientific knowledge following the tumultuous Roman conquest of the Mediterranean in the 2nd century BCE. …”
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Accounting for Complexity: Thinking With Idealisations, Models, and Data por Kathryne Metcalf

“…This Review essay describes three recent books which take up complex problems and the problem of complexity: philosopher Angela Potochnik’s Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017); science and technology studies (STS) scholar Nicole Nelson’s Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (2018); and historian of science Bruno Strasser’s Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology (2019). …”
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Il tracollo culturale dell'Ellenismo: una lezione per il presente e un'allerta per il futuro della scienza por Redazione MediaGEO

“… In this interview with Archeomatica, Lucio Russo, a physicist, mathematician, and historian of science, delves into a critical turning point in human history: the abrupt collapse of Hellenistic scientific knowledge following the tumultuous Roman conquest of the Mediterranean in the 2nd century BCE. …”
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Il tracollo culturale dell'Ellenismo: una lezione per il presente e un'allerta per il futuro della scienza por Redazione MediaGEO

“… In this interview with Archeomatica, Lucio Russo, a physicist, mathematician, and historian of science, delves into a critical turning point in human history: the abrupt collapse of Hellenistic scientific knowledge following the tumultuous Roman conquest of the Mediterranean in the 2nd century BCE. …”
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Beyond the center: Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe and their histories. An interview with professor Michael Jordan conducted by Jan Surman por Michael Gordin, Jan Surman

“…These are some of the questions touched upon in the interview with Michael Gordin, a leading historian of science from Princeton University.…”
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The History of Science and Natural Philosophy among the Croats (With Particular Reference to the Exact Sciences), Volume IV: The Enlightenment and Volume V: The Pre-Revival Age por Marijana Borić

“…In 2018, Izvori published another two volumes by academician Žarko Dadić, the eminent Croatian historian of science, and author of a score of books and large number of articles and papers on the history of mathematics, physics and astronomy. …”
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Beyond Raymond Aron The First Reception of Dilthey in France por Hallhane MACHADO

“…Rather than focusing on his most famous French commentator of the period, Raymond Aron, this study offers an overview of the appropriations of Dilthey present in the works of Alexandre Koyré, historian of science, and also of philosophy, religions, and German speculative mysticism. …”
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Review of <em>The Triumph of Numbers</em> by I. B. Cohen por H.L. Vacher

“…ISBN 0-393-05769-0.The premier historian of science ends his career telling how the world has become awash in numbers—“how numbers entered the conduct of life and of government, the understanding of nature, and the analysis of societies.” …”
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When the Content to Be Taught Is a Norm: Canguilhem-Inspired Contributions to Educational Practices por Xavier Roth

“…Yet the current edition of his Complete Works reveals that Canguilhem has never considered himself a true historian of science. If he traced “the history of the formation, deformation and rectification of scientific concepts”, it is above all to nurture his profession of professor of philosophy with “unknown material”. …”
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Applying a southern solvent: an interview with Warwick Anderson por Warwick Anderson, Marcos Cueto, Ricardo Ventura Santos

“…Abstract An interview by the editor and a member of the scientific board of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos with Warwick Anderson, a leading historian of science and race from Australia. He talks about his training, positions he held at US universities, his publications, and his research at the University of Sydney. …”
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