Between the Historiography of Science and the Culture of Researcher Communities. On the Forms of Dialogue with the Past in Scientific Communities

Abstract

Historian of science, which is derived from the scientific discipline research, which examines the history, not always clearly perceived abroad between a professional historical research on the history of science tradition and practice of environmental, useful for building group identity or prestige of this community. The historian of science often makes no distinction between the historical studies on the history of science and the realization of the cultural needs of professional backgrounds, from which he derives. Both forms of dialogue with the past, however, have different objectives. This phenomenon has a long tradition, and its consequence is often shaping historiographical myth in the historiography of science. Training methodologies and historiographical historian of science is often limited to self-selective. I do not know often that not every form of dialogue with the past is a professional practice of historiography of science. Many historians of science practiced all sorts of different forms of dialogue with the past. They do so for various reasons. An important aspect of group traditions, monumental figures of the past as models for his successors teaching, anniversaries of people and institutions.