Reading and experiment in the early royal society

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 244-272

  Johns, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511483974.009     Document Type: Chapter

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