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Special Issue: After the Scientific Revolution: Thinking Globally about the Histories of the Modern Sciences
Journal of Early Modern History ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2017-10-27 , DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342567
J.B. Shank 1
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History of science today needs to fully escape from the categories and narrative frameworks created during the Cold War formation of the discipline. Most problematic is the portentous notion of science conceived as a uniquely European world-historical singular that founded modernity. The idea of a singular historical birth of science in the portentous singular, this article argues, is not a natural fact of world history, but a very recent conceptual invention that continues to do negative historiographical work. The idea of a history of modern science which takes as its starting point this imagined birth of singular science in the world-historical event called the “Scientific Revolution” is more problematic still. To move forward in a more globally conscious direction, our historiography needs to become comfortable rejecting this Cold War understanding of singular science, along with its origin story in the so-called Scientific Revolution of the early modern period. The result will be a new historiographical space where the global histories of the modern sciences in all of their diversity can be explored. In order to frame the contributions to this project offered in this volume, this introduction traces in outline the rise and fall of the classical early modern birth of singular science paradigm. It also suggests reasons why this framework has come apart in recent years and the new paths forward emerging out of its ruins.

中文翻译:

特刊:科学革命之后:从全球角度思考现代科学的历史

今天的科学史需要完全摆脱冷战时期学科形成过程中创造的类别和叙事框架。最有问题的是科学的不祥概念,它被认为是建立现代性的独特的欧洲世界历史单一体。本文认为,科学在不祥的单数中的单数历史诞生的想法不是世界历史的自然事实,而是一个非常新的概念发明,它继续做负面的史学工作。现代科学史的想法,以这种想象中的单一科学在被称为“科学革命”的世界历史事件中的诞生为起点,仍然存在更多问题。为了朝着更具全球意识的方向前进,我们的史学需要适应冷战时期对单一科学的理解,以及它在近代早期所谓的科学革命中的起源故事。结果将是一个新的史学空间,可以探索现代科学的所有多样性的全球历史。为了构建本卷中对该项目的贡献,本介绍概述了单一科学范式的经典早期现代诞生的兴衰。它还说明了为什么这个框架近年来分崩离析,以及从其废墟中出现的新前进道路。结果将是一个新的史学空间,可以探索现代科学的所有多样性的全球历史。为了构建本卷中对该项目的贡献,本介绍概述了单一科学范式的经典早期现代诞生的兴衰。它还说明了为什么这个框架近年来分崩离析,以及从其废墟中出现的新前进道路。结果将是一个新的史学空间,可以探索现代科学的所有多样性的全球历史。为了构建本卷中对该项目的贡献,本介绍概述了单一科学范式的经典早期现代诞生的兴衰。它还说明了为什么这个框架近年来分崩离析,以及从其废墟中出现的新前进道路。
更新日期:2017-10-27
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