The historiography of the chemical revolution
Subtitle: patterns of interpretation in the history of science
By: by John G. McEvoy
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781848930308; 9781848930315
Subjects: Historiography; Chemistry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: The philosophical and historiographical terrain --; title: Positivism, Whiggism and the chemical revolution --; title: Postpositivism and the history of science --; title: Postpositivist interpretations of the chemical revolution --; title: From modernism to postmodernism: changing philosophical images of science --; title: The sociology of scientific knowledge and the history of science --; title: Postmodernist and sociological interpretations of the chemical revolution --; title: The chemical revolution as history.