Collecting airs and ideas: Priestley's style of experimental reasoning

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 506-522

  Boantza, Victor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eighteenth century chemistry; Epistemology; Joseph Priestley; Pneumatic research; Style of reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548524417     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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