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Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution

Postpositivist Interpretations of the Chemical Revolution) Canadian Journal of History, 36 (2001), pp. 453-69. [Pg.308]

Chapter 4 will show how the ensuing clash between postpositivist and sociological interpretations of the Chemical Revolution involved a deeper polarity between theoreticism and sociologism, between a realist or globalist philosophy of science, which emphasized the unity of science and history, and the nominalism of postmodernism, which stressed the irreducible multiplicity and diversity... [Pg.10]

Within an idealist interpretive framework, which downplayed the role of experience, agency and discontinuity in the development of science, Metzger produced an interpretation of the Chemical Revolution that prefigured some of the themes and ideas developed by postpositivist historians of chemistry thirty years later. She rejected the positivist-Whig idea of Lavoisier as the experimental founder of modern chemistry, and she shifted the locus of the Chemical... [Pg.86]

Guerlac and the Historiography of the Crucial Year Guerlac s seminal study of Lavoisier s crucial year shaped many of the more specialized interpretations of the Chemical Revolution developed by postpositivist historians of science. According co the historiography of the crucial year, Lavoisier founded modern chemistry in his quantitative experiments... [Pg.95]

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