TOWARD AN INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY OF SCIENCE.

The article presents an interdisciplinary argument about the historical study of science. In proposing to institutionalize the history of science, there are two main goals, namely, improving the theoretical foundations of the individual disciplines, and rounding out the domain of historical scholarship. The history of science should serve to give scientific studies a more philosophical direction and to fill a basic gap in the system of historical studies. The term historical study of science refers to the state of affairs and not to something like a new discipline, at best it is a subspecialty of the science of science. The history of science has in no way acted as a link between the sciences, especially the natural sciences, on the one hand, and historical scholarship on the other. There have indeed been attempts to help the history of science assume an appropriate place in modern terms. The theoretical turn in historiography has in fact resulted in a stronger consideration of the history of science before the historical turn in the science of science suggested this.