Science, in practice, is a series of evolving processes informed by hypotheses and theories, with the hopeful endpoints of discovery and dissemination of knowledge to others. In a case study using ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

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.

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 ...

THE first volume of Dr. Sarton's “Introduction to the History of Science”, already reviewed in NATURE, was universally and deservedly acclaimed as a major contribution to our knowledge of the growth ...

Just back from sabbatical Naomi Oreskes has published “Why Trust Science?,” a timely book that examines the value of the scientific process of proof and verifiable facts in an era when both are under ...

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 ...

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 ...