History as a Science

Science Communication, A review on Importance, History, and Its Models

The article is an extended version of a talk on the issue given in Half-Day Seminar on the Complications of Scientific Publications held by Iranian Academy of Sciences, on July the ninth of 2019. Apparently, science communication, an old tradition and once very popular according to the literature reviewed, is not well advanced along with the magnificent scientific progress happened during the l...

History as Educational Materials and to Popularize the Science of Toxicology

A History of Science

George Sarton is, in many ways, a twentieth century example of the Renaissance ideal of the "universal man." In our age of specialization it is almost impossible to attach a conventional label to Dr. Sarton. He is a scientist who received the degree of doctor of science in mathematics from the University of Ghent; he is a novelist (La chaine d'or, 1909, written under the pseudonym of Dominique ...

Viewing the History of Science as Compiled Hindsight

ion is also important in AI. Scientists sometimes make use of mathematical models at one level of abstraction, but multiple levels of abstraction, with each increasingly abstract, is not a common idea in science or the history and philosophy of science. In AI it is easy to consider dropping detail as one proceeds upward in an abstraction hierarchy. Forming the higher-level, abstract concepts wh...

Topology as an Issue for History of Philosophy of Science

Since antiquity well into the beginnings of the 20th century geometry was a central topic for philosophy. In contrast, most philosophers of science, if they took notice of topology at all, considered it as an abstruse subdiscipline of mathematics lacking philosophical inter est. Here it is argued that this neglect of topology may be conceived of as the sign of a conceptual sea-change in philoso...