Historiography of the Chemical Revolution

• Introduction: The Philosophical and Historiographical Terrain; Chapter 1 Positivism, Whiggism and the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 2 Postpositivism and the Historiography of Science; Chapter 3 Postposotivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 4 From Modernism to Postmodernism: Changing Philosophical Images of Science; Chapter 5 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Science; Chapter 6 Postmodernist and Sociological Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution; Chapter 7 The Chemical Revolution as History;

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