Alistair Cameron Crombie

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Alistair Cameron Crombie (born November 4, 1915 in Brisbane , † February 9, 1996 in Oxford ) was an Australian historian of science .

Crombie studied in Melbourne and Cambridge . In the early 1950s he taught at University College London . From 1953 he taught history of science at Oxford University . Since then, history of science has been an official subject at Oxford.

One of his students is the science historian Professor David M. Knight . In 1972 Crombie was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1990 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Works

  • [1952] Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science AD ​​400-1650 ( English ), Revised edition. Edition, Penguin, 1969, ISBN 0-14-055074-7 . (German: From Augustine to Galileo: the emancipation of the natural sciences . Most recently: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1977.)
  • Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science, 1100-1700 ( English ). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1953, ISBN 0-19-824189-5 .
  • Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought ( English ). Hambledon, London 1990, ISBN 0-907628-79-6 .
  • Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts ( English ). Gerald Duckworth & Company, London 1995, ISBN 0715624393 .

literature

  • JD North: Alistair Cameron Crombie, 1915-1996 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 97 , 1998, pp. 257-270 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 17, 2020 .