'This house is a temple of research': Country-house centres for late Victorian science

Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 143-154

  Opitz, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843317517.012     Document Type: Chapter

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