Derek de Solla Price argues the need for a new disciplinary field that bridges the sciences and humanities in his book Science Since Babylon (1978), He makes his case with a series of essays that unpack a critical point regarding the history of science and its development to what we see today. Through his research, he has been able to make important discoveries and suggestions that lead to his argument addressing a call for an institutionalization for what he terms the “humanities of science”(197). Given how readable this book was in chronicling the history of science and humanity's understanding of the world, Price is writing to a well-educated audience with knowledge of the sciences, philosophy or history.
Price begins by speculating that
Price begins by speculating that