Scientific Instrument Making, Epistemology, and the Conflict between Gift and Commodity Economies

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 127-139

  Baird, Davis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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