Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: The Philosophical and Historiographical Terrain
- 1 Positivism, Whiggism and the Chemical Revolution
- 2 Postpositivism and the History of Science
- 3 Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution
- 4 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Changing Philosophical Images of Science
- 5 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Science
- 6 Postmodernist and Sociological Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution
- 7 The Chemical Revolution as History
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: The Philosophical and Historiographical Terrain
- 1 Positivism, Whiggism and the Chemical Revolution
- 2 Postpositivism and the History of Science
- 3 Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution
- 4 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Changing Philosophical Images of Science
- 5 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Science
- 6 Postmodernist and Sociological Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution
- 7 The Chemical Revolution as History
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Historiography of the Chemical RevolutionPatterns of Interpretation in the History of Science, pp. i - ivPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014