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The Long and Short of It: The Future Writing of History of Chemistry (2022)

Brock, William H. (Author)

Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Volume: 47
Pages: 138-145
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

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Historical method Epistemology History of science, as a discipline Historiography Chemistry 21st century 20th century, late

Following reflections on the experience of writing a long, thick history of chemistry in 1992 and, some 24 years later, a short thin one in 2016, the author notes how quickly the historiography of chemistry changed in just two decades. He asks whether book-length histories of chemistry, whether long or short, have a future. While the writing of biographical articles may seem straightforward, journal articles present problems as contemporary chemistry becomes more and more bound up with its sister sciences, computing and engineering, and the history of science with social and cultural history. Probably the only way to tackle late-twentieth and twenty-first-century chemistry satisfactorily is through a collaboration between technically-trained chemists and historians of science who may (or may not) have studied chemistry in their early education. The author reflects on two of his recent experiences of such collaboration.

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