Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation

Science in Context

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 115-145

  Schaffer, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84972376946     PISSN: 02698897     EISSN: 14740664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026988970000051X     Document Type: Article

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