La ciencia como fenómeno de la cultura: el concepto del átomo

Abstract

This work has like object to show the science like a phenomenon of the culture in the development of the historical concept of the atom, pointing out the current crisis of principles of the science. Involving the times of the western thought, with special detail in, the thought of the Ancient Greece, the Modern Age and the frontier knowledge. The abovementioned makes necessary to take points of view, based on the externalist current of the historians of the sciences, to give evidences of the crisis of principles of the science and how this, it makes use of the philosophy, like a science of the principles.