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Peter Achinstein: Evidence and Method: Scientific Strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell

Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, 177 pp, $24.95, ISBN: 978-0199921850

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Kragh, H. Peter Achinstein: Evidence and Method: Scientific Strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. J Gen Philos Sci 44, 405–408 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-013-9238-0

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