The commerce of letters: Networks and "invisible colleges" in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe

Library Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-43

  Kronick, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/603239     Document Type: Article

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