Examine And Evaluate The Medieval History Of Science From Duhem's Historiography Of Science Thoughts

History of Science about the Middle Ages is gradually becoming a special area of research in history of science.Furthermore,such as the question of the origin of modern science and else are attracting more and more scholars in history of science to be involved.All of this stems from the excellent Duhem:a French scientist,historian of science,philosophers of science.Duhem's work about history of science in the Middle Ages made the community of history of science rediscover the Middle Ages.Duhem was impressed by the scholastic philosophy in the 14th century Paris and completed many great works to hand down laters from his elaborate research on lots of medieval manuscripts.As a result of his studies,the Middle Ages is no longer dark and barren,no longer a pitch-dark night of science,but the swaddle to be born modern science.This is that Duhem attempted to tell us about the Middle Ages by his writings.Is the Middle Ages really like a similar spring of science that Duhem said?How did Duhem through his own effort to break the myth of darkness of the Middle Ages?How do we evaluate the role of the Middle Ages for the modern science?These are the problems to be solved in the study of Duhem in the next step.Duhem's medieval studies were under the guidance of his unique historiography thoughts of science.Therefore,through careful analysis of Duhem's research about medieval history of science,it will be able to see clearly his unique thoughts,the merits and demerits of the Duhem's historiography thoughts of science.Duhem's historiography thoughts of science are inextricably linked with his philosophical thought of science.Therefore,to study Duhem's philosophy thoughts of science is s a great aid and advantage to understand his historiography thoughts of science.Through examine and to review his historiography thoughts of science and the arising problems by the thoughts is not only advantageous to evaluate his work but also to understand deeply the relations between the philosophy of science and the history of science.