This study broaches the Brazilian production of chemistry historiography in articles from periodicals embracing the period from 1974 to 2004. The presupposition under investigation is the interconnection between the industrial chemical activity developed in the country and the quantity of articles produced. The discussion on the internalist/externalist issue was chosen to highlight some aspects of that production during that period. In order to achieve that, we carried out a survey of articles in the major Brazilian periodicals that cover chemistry historiography as well as a research on the national chemical sector industrial production during the studied period. The analysis of that data has revealed that there is an interconnection between the industrial production and chemical historiography.
A historiografia da química em periódicos brasileiros que a veiculam é examinada no período após a institucionalização da história da ciência no país, tendo como motivo condutor um debate entre as posições ditas de externalismo e internalismo. Sugere-se ainda um confronto dos dados obtidos de publicações sobre história da química com a produção nacional do setor químico para indagar se haveria uma correlação entre a base econômica e a historiografia, nesse período.
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