Vasily Pavlovich Zubov (Васи́лий Па́влович Зу́бов, 1 August 1900 – 8 April 1963) was a Russian and Soviet philosopher who wrote on architecture, art, and the history of science based on studies of texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
He received a posthumous George Sarton medal from the history of science society in 1963.
[1] Zubov was born in Alexandrov near Moscow to Pavel Vasilyevich, a chemist who had worked on thermo-chemistry, who also took an interest in playing the violin and in numismatics.
He joined the State Academy of Artistic Sciences where he contributed to an encyclopedia of art from 1923 to 1929.
Zubov did not believe in theories (Geistesgeschichte) that people of a period stuck to specific approaches or traditions.