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The History of Chemistry in Latin America

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The chapter proposes that the teaching of the history of chemistry should be more than teaching an undifferentiated mass of names and dates. The chapter reconstructs the history of chemistry in five revolutionary moments. These moments are considered regarding the Kuhnian notion of “exemplar,” rather than “paradigm” and enable the incorporation of instruments, and concepts in the Latin America context under the umbrella of scientific pluralism.

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To DGAPA-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for its support in a research stay at Centre d’historia de la ciència in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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  1. Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, DF, México

    José A. Chamizo

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    Cibelle Celestino Silva

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Chamizo, J.A. (2018). The History of Chemistry in Latin America. In: Prestes, M., Silva, C. (eds) Teaching Science with Context. Science: Philosophy, History and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74036-2_13

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