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Historiography in a metaphysical mode

John G. McEvoy: The historiography of the chemical revolution: Patterns of interpretation in the history of science. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010, xiii+328pp, £60.00, $99.00 HB

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  1. CETCOPRA/Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, 17 Rue de la Sorbonne, 75231, Paris Cedex05, France

    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

  2. Department of History, University of New Hampshire, 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH, 03824, USA

    Jan Golinski

  3. Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS), University of Twente, Postbox 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Lissa L. Roberts

  4. Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

    John McEvoy

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Bensaude-Vincent, B., Golinski, J., Roberts, L.L. et al. Historiography in a metaphysical mode. Metascience 21, 41–57 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9524-6

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