Founder myth Bensaude-Vincent

On Lavoisier, see Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, "A Founder Myth in the History of Science The Lavoisier Case," 5378, in Loren Graham et al., eds., Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook VII (Dordrecht Reidel, 1983). 

On chemistry courses in nineteenth-century France, see Bensaude-Vincent, "A Founder Myth in the History of Science " n. 3, 7677. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, A Founder Myth in the History of Sciences. The Lavoisier Case, in Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Fiistories, ed. L. Graham et al. (Reidel, 1983) idem, Une Mythologie Revolutionnaire dans la Chimie Frangaise, Annals of Science 40, 1983, 189-196. 

Working in the wake of Bensaude-Vincent s seminal analysis of the historical origins of the Founder Myth, and lending partial support to the hermeneutical identification of an event with its subsequent effects and interpretations, Christoph Meinel and Mi Gyung Kim showed how the image of Lavoisier as the... 

Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800, p. 208 C. C. Gillispie, The Edge of Objectivity An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas (Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, I960), p. 205 See B. Bensaude-Vincent, A Founder Myth in the History of Science - the Lavoisier Case , in L. Graham, P. Lepinies and W. Weingart (eds). 

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