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Creating a social space for modern science

Joseph Agassi: The very idea of modern science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, xvii+315pp, €106.95 HB

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Chalmers, A. Creating a social space for modern science. Metascience 23, 173–177 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9826-y

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