« A view of the past through the lens of the present. »,

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (1)

1 CETCOPRA - Centre d'étude des techniques, des connaissances et des pratiques

In this paper I would like to venture some historiographical reflections on the revival of interest for this period of chemistry. How are we to understand that a style of chemistry usually dismissed as being pre-modern or pre-scientific appeals to so many historians? What makes it so interesting in this early twenty-first century? I will argue that the early modern period regains our attention because the values attached to contemporary science are changing and the patterns of science in society are less and less alien to those of early modern chemistry

Mots clés: chemical revolution; style of chemistry; technoscience; regime of historicity

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. « A view of the past through the lens of the present. »,: Concluding remarks. Osiris, 2014, Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World, 29, pp.298-309. ⟨hal-01216560⟩