Science and voyages of discovery

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 618-646

  Iliffe, Rob ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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