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James Franklin: What Science Knows and How it Knows it

Encounter Books, New York, 2009, ISBN: 1594032076, Hardcover, 200 pp, $23.95

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Matthews, M.R. James Franklin: What Science Knows and How it Knows it . Sci & Educ 19, 1019–1027 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-010-9227-1

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