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The cipher of the zodiac

Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz: The zodiac of Paris: How an improbable controversy over an ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, vi+428pp, $35.00, £24.95 HB

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  1. About Laplace’s interest for Newton’s hypothesis at the end of his life, see Hahn (2005, pp. 201–203).

  2. About this, see Aubin et al. (2010).

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  1. Faculty of History, Oxford University, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL, UK

    Robert Fox

  2. Program in History of Science, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Charles C. Gillispie

  3. Department of History, University of Mississippi, 310 Bishop Hall, University, MS, 38677, USA

    Theresa Levitt

  4. Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Histoire des sciences mathématique, UPMC - case postale 247, 4, place Jussieu, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    David Aubin

  5. Humanities and Social Sciences 101-40, Caltech, 1200 East California Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Jed Z. Buchwald

  6. Writing Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 730 Commonwealth Ave., Rm. 301, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Diane Greco Josefowicz

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Fox, R., Gillispie, C.C., Levitt, T. et al. The cipher of the zodiac. Metascience 21, 509–530 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9674-1

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