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Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology || Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Lifeby Theodore M. Porter;The Values of Precisionby M. Norton Wise

✍ Scribed by Review by: Timothy L. Alborn

Book ID
124479310
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
366 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-165X

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