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
Acknowledgements
- 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
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- The Historiography of the Chemical RevolutionPatterns of Interpretation in the History of Science, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014