On the Sources of the Historian of Science from the Perspective of a History of Education

Abstract

The book that these few words conclude aims primarily, as its title makes explicit, at offering clarification on the issue of the relationship between documents that are sources for present-day historians of science and what is often called, for lack of a better expression, a “school context.” This project is most welcome, since it addresses an area in which, undeniably, as I shall emphasize, a great deal of confusion reigns and that this confusion is detrimental to a genuinely historical treatment of our sources.