Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-12T21:29:17.237Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Address to the Opening Session of the XV International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, 11 August 1977

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham
Affiliation:
East Asian History of Science Library, 8 Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2BW.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

My assignment today, as I understand it, is to say something about the Second International Congress of the History of Science, the only previous one held in the United Kingdom; to mention some of the great historians of science which these islands have produced; and to direct our thoughts for a few moments to the historiography of science, technology and medicine, namely the guiding ideas in the light of which one should attempt to write it. So much has already been said in thanks to the city and the university in which we are now assembled that I could hardly add to it, except to express my personal sense of elation at coming on this occasion to the ‘Athens of the North’ where so many distinguished men have lived in the past, from mediaeval times onwards.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 1978 , pp. 103 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1978

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)