ON WHOSE SIDE IS HISTORY?

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    • Subject Terms:
      JAKI, Stanley; DUHEM, Pierre Maurice Marie, 1861-1916
    • Abstract:
      Presents historian of science Stanley Jaki's attempt to answer the question "On whose side is history" without sliding into politics. Origins of historiography that go back to the Greeks; Scientific achievements in ancient China; Difficulty of specifying actual starting points in intellectual history; How theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem revolutionized the history of science by creating the historiography of science.