Setting up a discipline: Conflicting agendas of the Cambridge history of science committee, 1936-1950

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 665-689

  Mayer, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034357393     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(00)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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