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The Cambridge History of Science: Early Modern Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 341-362

  Harris, Steven J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572446.017     Document Type: Chapter

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