Narratives, anecdotes, and experiments: Turning experience into science in the seventeenth century

The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 135-163

  Dear, Peter ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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