Awon kiikan Volta tan imole nla ti imo ijinle sayensi o si mu ki awon miiran se awon idanwo ti o jora, eyiti o yorisi idagbasoke aaye ti itanna eletiriki.Volta tun fa itara lati odo Napoleon Bonaparte fun eda re, o si pe si Institute of France lati se afihan eda re si awon omo egbe ti ile-eko naa.. 
Michel Foucault provides a potent Ọkànmàáque in his Archaeology of the human Sciences, though nídìímas and rọty have both argued that Foucault merely ọkànplaces one such system of thought with another.Richard rọty.. 