Classifying the sciences

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 239-266

  Yeo, Richard ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.011     Document Type: Chapter

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