Exploring natural knowledge: Science and the popular

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn 9780521572439, Issue , 2003, Pages 129-158

  Fissell, Mary ^a   Cooter, Roger ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84928091931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.007     Document Type: Chapter

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