Talk:History of science and technology

message: I tried to clean up the Indian section a bit, where incoherent stuff was just piling up. It is still very bad. How will we make the article more flowing and coherent? I suppose it should be organized by "epoch", not by culture. As it is, lumping together stone age India with Gupta medieval science is very confusing. How about "Prehistorical", "Bronze Age" (Mesopotamia, Egypt, IVC), "Iron Age", Ancient China, Roman Empire, Classical India, Islam, Medieval Europe, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century (or something like this). dab (ᛏ) 08:47, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: how to proceed?

message: *Fold the discipline-related text into science studies.
*Don't try to make this too comprehensive. Point out major events, some themes, generalize. It's foolish to try and have a comprehensive entry on this subject; it's foolish to try and have a comprehensive book on this subject. 
*I wouldn't dwell too much on pre-17th century science, because our modern sense of "science" didn't really start until then. Create separate entries for Ancient Chinese scientific practices and Medieval science and things like that, link to them from here. 
Just some suggestions, take or leave them as may be... --Fastfission 17:17, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: My suggestion

message: I excised science-only and technology-only material from this article.  (It wasn't that hard.)  "History of Science and Technology" redirects here, so there's no disambig as proposed above.  As long as you can find "History of science" and "History of technology" easily from the top of this page, that should be fine. 
This article is then now all about the academic discipline and the interaction between science and technology, unless that should be in its own article.  Go crazy.  -- Beland 03:31, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breakup, finally 

message: (no question posted)
*If you have a question, you need to ask it, first of all. A better place to ask general questions is the Wikipedia:Reference desk, but you can ask them here too if you want. --Fastfission 19:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I HAVE A QUESTION TO ASK. 

message: It seems this article is about the field of history of science but does not chronologically narrate the history of science itself. Is there another article that does this?
If there is another one or this is the one, I recommend the books written by: J.L. Heilbron, Alistair Cameron Crombie, David Lindberg, Edward Grant, and Thomas Goldstein.
*There are a number of articles relating to the history of science, but the most general one about the content of the history of science is History of science. --Fastfission 14:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nature of the article; recommended books

message: I recently removed a link to the "Science Society" from the list of Professional societies and to its web page from the list of Journals and Periodicals.  The link to the "Science Society" has since been reverted.  I deleted these links for two reasons:
First, the web page is a project of a first year undergraduate rather than a scholarly journal.
Second, the society gives no sign of being a formal organization with members and even if it were, it is not primarily concerned with the history of science and technology but with science in general.  By that criterion, a whole range of scientific societies that occasionally publish materials on historical issues could be added to this list.  Since it is inappropriate and not notable I have now removed the "Science Society" once again.  --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Science Society revert 

message: This article seems to me to be primarily lists of institutions (and in references, just links to them) and workers in the field. Since Wikipedia is not a list of links, seems to me that it would be better without all of them. Then, the article is barely better than a stub.  Just my opinion. Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 14:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nature of the Article II 

message: You are invited to comment on the content dispute regarding the stubbing of the Mathematics in medieval Islam article Thank You -Aquib (talk) 04:10, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to comment on RFC regarding the stubbing (deletion) of the ''Mathematics in medieval Islam'' article  

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