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Observation observed

Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds): Histories of scientific observation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 460pp, $81.00 HB, $27.50 PB

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  1. This aspect is further developed in Pomata (2011).

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Kusukawa, S. Observation observed. Metascience 23, 347–352 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9847-6

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