Table of Contents

I The Natural Sciences.- On the Relation of Physical Science to History in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany.- Re-Reading the Past from the End of Physics: Maxwell’s Equations in Retrospect.- A Founder Myth in the History of Sciences? — The Lavoisier Case.- Redefinitions of a Discipline: Histories of Geology and Geological History.- The Role of Medical History in the History of Medicine in Germany.- II The Social Sciences.- On Merton’s “History” and “Systematics” of Sociological Theory.- The Self-Presentation of a Discipline: History of Psychology in the United States between Pedagogy and Scholarship.- The Uses of History for the Shaping of a Field: Observations on German Psychology.- Cultural Anthropology and the Paradigm-Concept: A Brief History of their Recent Convergence.- III The Humanities.- On the Relation of Disciplinary Development and Historical Self-Presentation — the Case of Classical Philology since the End of the Eighteenth Century.- Epilogue.- Name Index.