Scholars have argued that the history of science might facilitate an understanding of process of science. So the history of science should be incorporated as an integral component of instruction to promote learning of and about science. Enabling students to develop a scientific mindset is complicated by students views on the nature of history as science. They need to appreciate the historical events, that is to say to compare and interpret the different evaluative frameworks, past and present. This paper illustrates the distinction between natural and human sciences and the character of history of science as human activity. The question to be addressed is that the understanding of history of science requires a certain kind of interpretation, one which involves ascribing reasons, attitudes, motivations and values. In that case the hermeneutic point of view will insist on the difference between explanation, which involves inference and theory, and understanding, which involves seeing the world from another’s point of view. This is important because of the normative character of science. So if interpretation in the human sciences involves seeing its subject matter as endowed with normativity in the form of reasons, intentions, interests, norms, etc., then one might take interpretation in the natural sciences as similarly seeing its subject matter endowed with normativity.Air Jordan