Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 94-116

  Wood, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521802733.006     Document Type: Chapter

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