Alan Chalmers, The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2009. Pp xii+287. ISBN 978-90-481-2361-2. £90.00 (hardback).

Seth Suman

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Alan Chalmers, The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2009. Pp xii+287. ISBN 978-90-481-2361-2. £90.00 (hardback).

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Information: The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 463 - 465

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Alan Chalmers, The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer, 2009. Pp xii+287. ISBN 978-90-481-2361-2. £90.00 (hardback).

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