Replicating the practices of discovery: Michael Faraday and the interaction of gold and light

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 137-158

  Tweney, Ryan D ^a   Mears, Ryan P ^a   Spitzmuller, Christiane ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 33746049896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410611314     Document Type: Chapter

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