There is reconstructed the assessment of the West European science of the XVI-XVII centuries in the Soviet historiography of the 70-80s of the XX century. There is stated that in spite of the formal devotion to the doctrines of the formation analysis a number of Soviet science historians and philosophers managed to give the pluralistic assessments of the West European science of the XVI-XVII centuries which are within the modern trends of the historical and scientific, scientific and philosophic researches.