Do we understand historically how experimental knowledge is acquired? / Frederic L. Holmes.
Abstract:
On the current claims that experimentation has been pervasively overlooked in the history of science. The first part examines whether the leading historians of science during the 'founding decades' after the Second World War really left experimentation out of their concerns. The second part examines the possibility of reconstructing the investigative pathway for Robert Boyle's experiments with the air pump
History of science Vol. 30 (1992), p. 119-136