- For a valuable critique of the problems of such an analysis, see Rudwick Martin Social order and the natural world Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture Barnes Barry Shapin Steven Beverly Hills and London 1978 an essay review of in History of Science, 18 (1980), 269–85.
- I have identified a comparable set of changes in electrical science in Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century and related them to contemporary social and institutional transformations by means of a pretheoretical psychosociology of knowledge; see my From galvanism to electrodynamics: the transformation of German physics and its social context Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1978 9 63 159 For a more extensive criticism of earlier versions of Heidelberger's thesis, see the ‘Introduction—1980’ prepared for the planned reprinting of my dissertation, Conceptual and generational change in German physics: the case of electricity, 1800–1846 (Princeton, New Jersey, 1974).
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Volume 39, 1982 - Issue 2