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5.6.6 History of Science and Technology

1. Historical analysis of the formation and development of science and technology. 2. Methods and specific techniques of historical-scientific and historical-technical developments. 3. History of the formation and development of scientific schools and directions, the role of their founders - leading scientists - in the development of world science, the establishment and justification of priorities in discoveries, in the development of new methods of fundamental theories. 4. History of research and discoveries in specific areas of scientific knowledge. 5. Formation and change of historical-scientific and historical-technical concepts, schools, directions. 6. Identification and historical analysis of previously unknown facts and innovations of scientific and historical value. 7. Generalization of historical and scientific material in order to recreate a complete picture of the formation and development of individual sciences and branches of scientific knowledge. 8. The study of problems of classification of science and ways of evolution of the structure of individual sciences or areas of scientific knowledge. 9. The study of the main trends and patterns of formation and development of individual sciences or branches of scientific knowledge. 10. The study of the main links between the demands of practice and the development of scientific knowledge. 11. Study of the need to develop certain directions of science and technology policy. 12. Study of qualitative changes and historical transitions from one state of certain branches of science to another in order to forecast the development of certain sciences and branches of scientific knowledge. 13. History of the formation and development of industrial complexes and other objects of national economic importance. 14. Methodological specificity of the analysis of historical-scientific and historical-technical sources. 15. Features of the researcher's work with different types and groups of sources on the history of science and technology (material, written, visual, complex, film, photo and phonodocuments).