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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2024-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X24000249/type/journal_article
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