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The frontiers of science

Thomas Simpson: The frontier in British India: science, space and power in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 298 pp, £75 HB

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  1. For an overview of the concepts and processes in the case of North America, see (Adelman & Aron 1999).

  2. For the concept of frontier languages, see (Morgenstierne 1929).

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Raj, K. The frontiers of science. Metascience 32, 403–408 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00894-1

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