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Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 [published 1992]. Pp. xii + 359, illus. ISBN 0-521-38084-7. £30.00, $47.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Scott Mandelbrote
Scott Mandelbrote
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All Souls College, Oxford
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 491 - 493
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1993

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