Alistair Cameron Crombie

Alistair Cameron Crombie (* November 4, 1915 in Brisbane, † 9 February 1996) was an Australian historian of science.

Crombie studied in Melbourne and Cambridge. In the early 50s of the 20th century, he taught at University College London. Since 1953, he taught history of science at Oxford University. Since that time, the history of science is an official school subject at Oxford.

One of his students is the science historian Professor David M. Knight. In 1972, Crombie was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Works

• Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science A.D. 400-1650, Revised edition, Penguin, 1969, ISBN 0-14-055074-7. ( German: From Augustine to Galileo: the emancipation of science Last: . Paperback German - Verlag, Munich, 1977. )
• Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science, 1100-1700. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1953, ISBN 0-19-824189-5.
• Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought. Hambledon, London, 1990, ISBN 0-907628-79-6.
• Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition: The History of Argument and Explanation Especially in the Mathematical and Biomedical Sciences and Arts. Gerald Duckworth & Company, London 1995, ISBN 0,715,624,393th