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Predicting the Past: Ancient Eclipses and Airy, Newcomb, and Huxley on the Authority of Science

✍ Scribed by Stanley, Matthew

Book ID: 118268897
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 596 KB
Volume: 103
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-1753
DOI: 10.1086/666355

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