The Study of Science

At the close of the nineteenth century, American youths developed a growing interest in electricity and its applications, machines, and gadgetry. When authors and publishers recognized the extent of this interest in technology, they sought to create reading materials that would meet this market need.

Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist theories of science are very often invoked, they actually provide little support for fashionable postmodern approaches to science studies.

The History of Science offers a fascinating overview of the major leaps forward in science across the ages.

This set presents readers in grades six and up with information surveying the study of science through the ages. Each volume discusses a specific time period, region, or area of science. Arrangement is, for the most part, chronological. Volumes 1 through 6 cover science history beginning with the ancient Egyptians and ending with the eighteenth century…