Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation

Over the past four decades, historians of science have come to discard crisis as a guiding heuristic in ‘big-picture’ narratives of scientific change. In this article, we argue that it can be rehabilitated without reintroducing the conceptual drawbacks of earlier historiographies. We suggest that an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Rory Kent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X24000043/type/journal_article