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Changing canons of mathematical and physical intelligibility in the later 17th century

✍ Scribed by Michael S Mahoney

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
558 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0315-0860

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