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Pierre Duhem, the History and Philosophy of Physics, and the Teaching of Physics

✍ Scribed by M. J. Crowe

Publisher
SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
226 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
1422-6944

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