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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Dorinda Outram
Dorinda Outram
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Royal Holloway College, University of London.
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , November 1982 , pp. 293 - 301
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1982

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