caa a22 4500 386398925 CHVBK 20180307112150.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007087400025516 doi S0007087400025516 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007087400025516 Perrin C. E. Document, Text and Myth: Lavoisier's Crucial Year Revisited [Elektronische Daten] [C. E. Perrin] Published texts, unpublished documents and, to a lesser extent, artefacts are the stuff from which historians of science fashion their interpretations of the past. From these residues we attempt to reconstruct the lost fabric of personalities, activities and institutions that constituted the practice of science, and to comprehend the flow of thought that was its substance. Like the sensory data of the empirical sciences, these raw materials are not pure chunks of reality. They must be interpreted in the light of contemporary discourse and practice of which they were part. Over time, and in the hands of different commentators they acquire new significance, sometimes of mythic proportions; moreover, they are inevitably viewed in the light of present suppositions and fashions, both scientific and historiographical. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 3-25 0007-0874 22:1<3 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400025516 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400025516 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Perrin C. E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/1(1989-03), 3-25 0007-0874 22:1<3 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge