LEADER 04103nam 22006372 450 001 9910780961303321 005 20231206225357.0 010 $a1-315-65608-6 010 $a1-317-32401-3 010 $a1-282-50221-2 010 $a9786612502217 010 $a1-84893-031-3 035 $a(CKB)2520000000009536 035 $a(EBL)496195 035 $a(OCoLC)568703820 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1510837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367570 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL527592 035 $a(OCoLC)862050148 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496195 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5293310 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250221 035 $a(OCoLC)1027195982 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781848930315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1510837 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5293310 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000009536 100 $a20141021d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe historiography of the chemical revolution $epatterns of interpretation in the history of science /$fby John G. McEvoy$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cPickering & Chatto,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-299-96341-2 311 $a1-84893-030-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tThe philosophical and historiographical terrain --$tPositivism, Whiggism and the chemical revolution --$tPostpositivism and the history of science --$tPostpositivist interpretations of the chemical revolution --$tFrom modernism to postmodernism: changing philosophical images of science --$tThe sociology of scientific knowledge and the history of science --$tPostmodernist and sociological interpretations of the chemical revolution --$tThe chemical revolution as history. 330 $aUntil recently, the Chemical Revolution was the Cinderella of scientific revolutions, demurely wedged between her noisier and more noticeable sisters - the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century (which saw the birth of modern science), and the Darwinian Revolution of the nineteenth century (which evoked passionate debates about the origin of life and human destiny) - the more prosaic issues associated with the Chemical Revolution attracted the interest of only a handful of historians and historically minded chemists. The last fifty years, however, have witnessed almost as many studies of the Chemical Revolution as occurred in the preceding century. 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. Concerned with interpretive patterns rather than particulars, it relates this sequence of interpretive styles - positivism, post-positivism and the sociology of scientific knowledge - to the emergence and development of philosophical and sociological models of science. It explores within this framework a range of different interpretations of the Chemical Revolution, noting conflicts and tensions between rationalist and relativist, realist and antirealist, materialist and idealist, and essentialist and nominalist philosophical sensibilities. Finally, it outlines an alternative, historical interpretation of the Chemical Revolution, highlighting continuity and discontinuity, identity and difference, permanence and mutability, in the phenomenon of scientific change. 606 $aChemistry$xHistory$y18th century$xHistoriography 606 $aChemistry$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aChemistry$xHistory$xHistoriography. 615 0$aChemistry$xHistory 676 $a540.722 700 $aMcEvoy$b John G.$f1942-$01501380 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780961303321 996 $aThe historiography of the chemical revolution$93728492 997 $aUNINA