A new history of science. There is always a tendency to trace the beginnings of science to the ancient Greeks. It is taken for granted that it tells a progress in progress and is constructed linearly, in a cumulative way, each adding a brick to the common building. Science would be universal, overarching, detached from any ideological and cultural substratum, and the writings of our predecessors would be only tests, often naive, to enable us to become what we are. It is not so. Science is a cultural construct at a given time. And the question of "progress" in this context does not have much significance. On the other hand, a path crosses Western thought since the Greeks: that of the demonstrative order,Euclid, pursued in the land of Islam, reinforced in the sixteenth century in the West, where mathematics are born as we know them. But this demonstrative order is valid for its form, not for its content. Taking a resolutely critical stance, revisiting the historicizing approaches of the history of science as much as the one concerning the ideological homogenization of the thoughts of global history, Michel Blay exposes a new sensitivity to the constructions of the past as well as those of the present, and opens a new path for the future.
...MoreReview Jean-François Stoffel (2021) Review of "Critique of the History of Science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 391-392).
Review Paolo Bussotti (2018) Review of "Critique of the History of Science". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 153-155).
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