Laudan, R. (1992). „What's so Special about the Past?”. Ур.: Nitecki, M.H.; Nitecki, D.V. History and Evolution. SUNY Press. стр. 58. ISBN0-7914-1211-3. „To structure my discussion of the historical sciences, I shall borrow a way of analyzing them from the great Victorian philosopher of science, William Whewell [...]. [...] while his analysis of the historical sciences (or as Whewell termed them, the palaetiological sciences) will doubtless need to be modified, it provides a good starting point. Among them he numbered geology, paleontology, cosmogony, philology, and what we would term archaeology and history.”Пронађени су сувишни параметри: |pages= и |page= (помоћ)
Laudan, R. (1992). „What's so Special about the Past?”. Ур.: Nitecki, M.H.; Nitecki, D.V. History and Evolution. SUNY Press. стр. 58. ISBN0-7914-1211-3. „[Whewell] distinguished three tasks for such a historical science (1837 [...]): ' the Description of the facts and phenomena; – the general Theory of the causes of change appropriate to the case; – and the Application of the theory to the facts.”Пронађени су сувишни параметри: |pages= и |page= (помоћ)
Perreault, Charles (2019). „The Search for Smoking Guns”. The Quality of the Archaeological Record. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. стр. 5. ISBN978-0226631011. Приступљено 9. 1. 2020. „Historical scientists successfully learn about the past by employing a 'smoking-gun' approach. They start by formulating multiple, mutually exclusive hypotheses and then search for a “smoking gun” that discriminates between these hypotheses [...].”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
„'Historical science' vs. 'experimental science'”. National Center for Science Education. 25. 10. 2019. Приступљено 9. 1. 2020. „Philosophers of science draw a distinction between research directed towards identifying laws and research which seeks to determine how particular historical events occurred. They do not claim, however, that the line between these sorts of science can be drawn neatly, and certainly do not agree that historical claims are any less empirically verifiable than other sorts of claims. [...] 'we can separate their two enterprises by distinguishing means from ends. The astronomer's problem is a historical one because the goal is to infer the properties of a particular object; the astronomer uses laws only as a means. Particle physics, on the other hand, is a nomothetic discipline because the goal is to infer general laws; descriptions of particular objects are only relevant as a means.”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
