The legacy of the “scientific revolution”: Science and the enlightenment

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 21-43

  Reill, Peter Hanns ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.003     Document Type: Chapter

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