title: The two cultures of scholarship?
abstract: This essay examines different approaches to writing the history of science in light of the increased importance of microhistorical studies in the past two decades. It specifically examines the role of microhistory within the history of science and the importance of Thomas Kuhn's concept of the "normal exception" in early methodological statements about the function of microhistory. It also considers the possibilities for writing archivally based history of science for a general readership as a means of bridging the divide between specialized research within the subfields of the history of science and more general accounts of the nature and growth of science.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Findlen
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000266:history; D014481:United States