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Einstein’s epistemology and the search for a unified theory

Jeroen van Dongen: Einstein’s unification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 224pp, £55 HB

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Rossanese, E. Einstein’s epistemology and the search for a unified theory. Metascience 21, 613–616 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9684-z

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