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How did the atomic hypothesis turn into a well-founded theory?

George E. Smith and Raghav Seth: Brownian motion and molecular reality. A study in theory-mediated measurement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 450 pp, €85 HB

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Pérez, E. How did the atomic hypothesis turn into a well-founded theory?. Metascience 30, 425–428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00677-6

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