Title: Epistemological Aspects of Historiography of Science in Greece
Abstract:This paper examines the epistemological aspects of the course of development of the discipline of history of
science in Greece focusing on three controversial themes: i) “Continuity” with the ancient...This paper examines the epistemological aspects of the course of development of the discipline of history of
science in Greece focusing on three controversial themes: i) “Continuity” with the ancients, ii) reception of
modern science in the Greek speaking communities in the 18th
- early 19th centuries and finally iii) the issue of
teaching the history of science in the science classroom.
Starting with the work of the first Professor of history of science, Michael Stefanidis, this paper examines the
transition from a discipline of history of science dominated by the attempt to establish the continuity of Greek
Science from the ancients onwards up to the last decades of the 20th century when a new generation of
historians of science, which appears on the scene in the late 1970s, prevailed in the cultural life of Greece. .
This new generation considered the argument for “continuity” as an ideological construction, and turned its
attention in the study of the post-Byzantine era, in a period that has been called “Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment”,
and focused on the study of reception and assimilation of the ideas of the 17th century scientific revolution in
Greek speaking communities.
Finally, this work examines the newly established relations between the historians of science and the historians
of science education considering the study of the two fields tightly connected in the Greek framework and
discusses the epistemological problems arisen from proposals and attempts to incorporate history of science in
the teaching of science in line with the developments in the international community.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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