The history of science, the ‘big picture’ and the politics of scale
What does it mean to write the history of science and the ‘big picture’? In this introduction, I argue that ‘scale’ is a crucial but relatively underutilized concept for addressing this question. Rather than taking ‘big’ as a transparent category, I develop a detailed theoretical account of scale in...
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| Main Author: | James Poskett |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2024-01-01
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| Series: | BJHS Themes |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X24000249/type/journal_article |
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