To academically educated professional historians, a full accommodation and acknowledgment of the existing secondary literature is an integral part of every historical investigation; in the sciences, this mandate is analogous to conducting a meticulous literature review as a required element of every research plan.  However, chemists who pursue the history of their discipline may not always know the best methods and sources to master this body of literature in the field of history of science.  The speaker will argue for the wider historiographical place of the secondary literature in historical methodology, and make specific recommendations for some of most useful and trustworthy methods and databases for historians of science.

For historians, the "secondary literature" is primary: A user guide for chemists

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