Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field.

Tracing the development of conceptual tools and experimental practice in the domain of chemistry from 1700 to 1900, Manuel DeLanda's I Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field i makes a significant contribution to the history and philosophy of chemistry most directly, while drawing important conclusions for the production of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries. DeLanda's specific methodology involves the analysis of chemistry textbooks, understood as representatives of scholarly consensus of a particular time. DeLanda then explains how by tracking the development of cognitive content in individual and generalized forms through the field of chemistry, and it becomes possible to understand how the field itself is produced, structured, and pluralized into subspecialities. [Extracted from the article]