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The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 669-687

  Kumar, Deepak ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84924724156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.029     Document Type: Chapter

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