Volume 6, Number 11 · June 23, 1966
At the Edge of Science
By Gavin de Beer
The Discovery of Time
by Stephen Toulmin, by June Goodfield
Harper & Row, 280, 11 pls. pp., $6.95
In universities where they are taught, there are two subjects which are usually combined into one department: the history of science and the philosophy of science; and they can make strange bedfellows. The history of science, reconstructing the problems with which great men of science of the past were confronted, and paying due attention to the state of knowledge then attained, studies the way in which they solved those problems, if necessary repeating the observations and the experiments which they made. Such studies can be as objective as the work that they retrace; in a sense they are verifications of old data, and can qualify as science.
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