Recent science: Late-modern and post-modern

The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-213

  Forman, Paul ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203726914-16     Document Type: Chapter

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