Leclerc, D. (English spelling) LeclercD

Japanese: Leclerc,D.(英語表記)LeclercD
Leclerc, D. (English spelling) LeclercD

…For example, the pioneering work of J. Priestley in England, the History of Science proposed by A. Comte in France, and the History of Inductive Sciences (1837) by W. Whewell in England are representative of such attempts. Of course, even before that, individual histories of science had been written for mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and other fields that had already been established as separate disciplines (for example, Leclerc's (1652-1728) History of Medicine (1696, 1723) and Delambre's (1749-1822) History of Ancient Astronomy (1817)). However, it was not until the middle of the 19th century, when science began to take shape as an idea, that the study of science history was finally born as an embodiment of that idea. At this stage, the definition of the concept of science was not given much importance. …

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…たとえば,イギリスのJ.プリーストリーの一連の先駆的な仕事,そしてフランスのA.コントが提案した〈科学の歴史histoire de la science〉や,イギリスのW.ヒューエルの著した《帰納科学の歴史》(1837)などが,そうした試みを代表する。もとよりそれ以前にも,すでに個別の学問として成立していた数学や,天文学,医学などに関しては,それぞれに,個別的な学問史が書かれたことがあった(たとえばルクレールD.Leclerc(1652‐1728)の《医学史》(1696,1723)やドランブルJ.Delambre(1749‐1822)の《古代天文学史》(1817)など)が,科学が一つの理念として成立しはじめる19世紀半ば近くになって,ようやく科学史という学問もその理念を体して誕生したといえよう。このような段階では,科学の概念規定は,あまり重要視されなかった。…

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