According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

In 1941, American chemist James Conant referred to the Second World War as “a physicist’s war.” The phrase gained currency as fighting raged and science was mobilized in the form of new technologies ...

Explore the implications of the intelligent design hypothesis in modern science and its historical context, as evolution diverges from supernatural claims. How could the act of invoking something so ...

The Center for Philosophy & History of Science is one of twenty-two independent research centers and institutes within Boston University’s College of Arts of Sciences. Founded in 1960, the Center’s ...

Equal Opportunity and Non-discrimination at Princeton University: Princeton University believes that commitment to equal opportunity for all is favorable to the free and open exchange of ideas, and ...

Cathryn Carson is professor of history of science, past director of the Office for History of Science and Technology and chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

The birth of natural history has traditionally been linked to European encounters with the natural world in the Renaissance and early modern period—especially “new” worlds engaged through colonization ...

The study of the history and philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is generated, justified and transformed over time. Historian-philosophers trace the evolution of concepts, methods ...