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Full Idea
The production of mechanisms as explanatory schemes finds its original home in chemistry.
Gist of Idea
Using mechanisms as explanatory schemes began in chemistry
Source
Weisberg/Needham/Hendry (Philosophy of Chemistry [2011], 5.1)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.29
A Reaction
This is as opposed to mechanisms in biology or neuroscience, which come later.