Renovating the Novum Organum: Bacon, Whewell and induction

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 531-557

  Snyder, Laura J ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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