Just one damn thing after another: Ari Ben-Menahem: Historical encyclopedia of the natural and mathematical sciences. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, xxvii+5988pp, €2,245.50 HB [Book Review]

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Just one damn thing after another Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9485-1 Authors Dean Rickles, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796

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