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The historiography of the chemical revolution : patterns of interpretation in the history of science /

This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McEvoy, John G., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The philosophical and historiographical terrain
  • Positivism, Whiggism and the chemical revolution
  • Postpositivism and the history of science
  • Postpositivist interpretations of the chemical revolution
  • From modernism to postmodernism: changing philosophical images of science
  • The sociology of scientific knowledge and the history of science
  • Postmodernist and sociological interpretations of the chemical revolution
  • The chemical revolution as history.