The image of the man of science

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 159-183

  Shapin, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.008     Document Type: Chapter

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