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Hist. Sci., xli (2003) WHIGS AND STORIES: HERBERT BUTTERFIELD AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE Nick Jardine University of Cambridge 1. INTRODUCTION: CRITIQUES OF WHIGGISHNESS For many years I knew only a handful of things about Herbert Butterfield: that he had been Regius Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; that as Chairman of the Cambridge History of Science Committee he had played an important role in the consolidation of the subject as an academic dis cipline in the post-WWII years; that in The Whig interpretation ofhistory (hereafter WIH) of 1931 he had applied the terms 'Whig' and 'Whiggish' to present-centred historical writing; and that in The origins of modern science (OMS) of 1949 he had declared of the Scientific Revolution that it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes". The little I knew puzzled me. How could Butterfield's enthusiasm about the origins and progress of modem science be squared with his disapproval of pre sentism? Why do historians of science so often, and mainstream historians so very rarely, follow Butterfield in using the terms 'Whig' and 'Whiggish' to designate and denigrate presentism? And why
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Published: Jun 1, 2003