Crombie A.C. Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts

London: Duckworth. — 24565 p. — 0715624393, 9780715624395.A.C. Crombie is well known as one of the world’s leading historians of
science. A retired Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, he has been
responsible for the introduction of the history of science and medicine into
normal teaching and research in the University. He has held
distinguished academic appointments, among others, at Princeton
University, University College London, the University of Tokyo, Smith
College and Williams College, Massachusetts, the Sorbonne (University
of Paris I) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and has lectured
widely throughout the world. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a
Corresponding Member of the Academia Leopoldina, and he has received
honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Durham and of Paris, the
Galileo Prize, and the Alexander von Humboldt Award.
A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and of Cambridge, he
began his career as a research zoologist, with papers in the Proceedings of
the Royal Society and elsewhere, and at the same time studied
philosophy. He was the first editor of the British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science and of History of Science, and is a former President
of both the British Society for the History of Science and the
International Academy for the History of Science. His previous
publications include Augustine to Galileo (1952, 4th edition 1979,
published in nine languages), Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of
Experimental Science (1953, 3rd edition 1971), Scientific Change (1963),
The Rational Arts of Living (1987), Science, Optics and Music in Medieval
and Early Modern Thought (1990), and Science, Art and Nature in
Medieval and Modern Thought (1994).