The Renaissance of Francis Bacon

NanoEthics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-41

  Schmidt, Jan Cornelius ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Francis Bacon; Nanotechnology; Philosophy and history of technoscience; Real constructivism; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954959100     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-011-0109-z     Document Type: Article

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