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Technology and the history of science

Ursula Klein: Technoscience in history: Prussia, 1750–1850. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020, 336 pp, $40 PB

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Picot, P., Petit, V. Technology and the history of science. Metascience 31, 435–438 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00777-x

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