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    Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum.Annie Jamieson & Gregory Radick - 2017 - Science & Education 26 (10):1261-1290.
    Twenty-first-century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for such tenacity? This article reports an exploratory study suggesting that the common reliance on Mendelian examples and concepts at the start of teaching in basic genetics is an eliminable source of support for determinism. Undergraduate students who attended a standard ‘Mendelian approach’ university course in introductory genetics on average showed no change in their (...)
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    Other Histories, Other Biologies.Gregory Radick - 2005 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 56:3-.
    Concentrating on genetics, this paper examines the strength of the links between our biological science -- our biology -- and the particular history which brought that science into being. Would quite different histories have produced roughly the same science? Or, on the contrary, would different histories have produced other, quite different biologies? One emphasis throughout is on the kinds of evidence that might be brought to bear from the actual past in order to assess claims about what might have been. (...)
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  3. The Simian Tongue. The Long Debate about Animal Language.Gregory Radick - 2008 - Journal of the History of Biology 41 (4):780-783.
     
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    The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language.Gregory Radick - 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press.
    In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine—one of the technological wonders of the age—to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered “the simian tongue,” made up of words he was beginning to translate, and containing the rudiments from which human language evolved. Yet for most of the next century, the (...)
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    Physics in the Galtonian sciences of heredity.Gregory Radick - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (2):129-138.
    Physics matters less than we once thought to the making of Mendel. But it matters more than we tend to recognize to the making of Mendelism. This paper charts the variety of ways in which diverse kinds of physics impinged upon the Galtonian tradition which formed Mendelism’s matrix. The work of three Galtonians in particular is considered: Francis Galton himself, W. F. R. Weldon and William Bateson. One aim is to suggest that tracking influence from physics can bring into focus (...)
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    Is the theory of natural selection independent of its history.Gregory Radick - 2003 - In Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge University Press. pp. 143--167.
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  7. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin.Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick (eds.) - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.
    The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies. A distinguished team of contributors examines Darwin's (...)
     
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    Introduction: Why What If?Gregory Radick - 2008 - Isis 99 (3):547-551.
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    Presidential address: Experimenting with the scientific past.Gregory Radick - 2016 - British Journal for the History of Science 49 (2):153-172.
    When it comes to knowing about the scientific pasts that might have been – the so-called ‘counterfactual’ history of science – historians can either debate its possibility or get on with the job. The latter course offers opportunities for engaging with some of the most general questions about the nature of science, history and knowledge. It can also yield fresh insights into why particular episodes in the history of science unfolded as they did and not otherwise. Drawing on recent research (...)
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    Intellectual property, plant breeding and the making of Mendelian genetics.Berris Charnley & Gregory Radick - 2013 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 44 (2):222-233.
    Advocates of “Mendelism” early on stressed the usefulness of Mendelian principles for breeders. Ever since, that usefulness—and the favourable opinion of Mendelism it supposedly engendered among breeders—has featured in explanations of the rapid rise of Mendelian genetics. An important counter-tradition of commentary, however, has emphasized the ways in which early Mendelian theory in fact fell short of breeders’ needs. Attention to intellectual property, narrowly and broadly construed, makes possible an approach that takes both the tradition and the counter-tradition seriously, by (...)
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    The professor and the pea: Lives and afterlives of William Bateson’s campaign for the utility of Mendelism.Gregory Radick - 2013 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 44 (2):280-291.
    As a defender of the fundamental importance of Mendel’s experiments for understanding heredity, the English biologist William Bateson did much to publicize the usefulness of Mendelian science for practical breeders. In the course of his campaigning, he not only secured a reputation among breeders as a scientific expert worth listening to but articulated a vision of the ideal relations between pure and applied science in the modern state. Yet historical writing about Bateson has tended to underplay these utilitarian elements of (...)
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    Morgan's canon, Garner's phonograph, and the evolutionary origins of language and reason.Gregory Radick - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Science 33 (1):3-23.
    ‘Morgan's canon’ is a rule for making inferences from animal behaviour about animal minds, proposed in 1892 by the Bristol geologist and zoologist C. Lloyd Morgan, and celebrated for promoting scepticism about the reasoning powers of animals. Here I offer a new account of the origins and early career of the canon. Built into the canon, I argue, is the doctrine of the Oxford philologist F. Max Müller that animals, lacking language, necessarily lack reason. Restoring the Müllerian origins of the (...)
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  13. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin.Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick - 2004 - Journal of the History of Biology 37 (2):389-391.
     
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    Claiming ownership in the technosciences: Patents, priority and productivity.Christine MacLeod & Gregory Radick - 2013 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 44 (2):188-201.
  15. Two explanations of evolutionary progress.Gregory Radick - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (4):475-491.
    Natural selection explains how living forms are fitted to theirconditions of life. Darwin argued that selection also explains what hecalled the gradual advancement of the organisation, i.e.evolutionary progress. Present-day selectionists disagree. In theirview, it is happenstance that sustains conditions favorable to progress,and therefore happenstance, not selection, that explains progress. Iargue that the disagreement here turns not on whether there exists aselection-based condition bias – a belief now attributed to Darwin – but on whether there needs to be such a bias (...)
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    Teach students the biology of their time.Gregory Radick - unknown
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    Introduction.Amanda Rees & Gregory Radick - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (2):269-272.
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    Should “Heredity” and “Inheritance” Be Biological Terms? William Bateson’s Change of Mind as a Historical and Philosophical Problem.Gregory Radick - 2012 - Philosophy of Science 79 (5):714-724.
    In 1894, William Bateson objected to the terms “heredity” and “inheritance” in biology, on grounds of contamination with misleading notions from the everyday world. Yet after the rediscovery of Mendel's work in the spring of 1900, Bateson promoted that work as disclosing the “principles of heredity.” For historians of science, Bateson's change of mind provides a new angle on these terms at a crucial moment in their history. For philosophers of science, the case can serve as a reminder of the (...)
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    Primate Language and the Playback Experiment, in 1890 and 1980.Gregory Radick - 2005 - Journal of the History of Biology 38 (3):461-493.
    The playback experiment -- the playing back of recorded animal sounds to the animals in order to observe their responses -- has twice become central to celebrated researches on non-human primates. First, in the years around 1890, Richard Garner, an amateur scientist and evolutionary enthusiast, used the new wax cylinder phonograph to record and reproduce monkey utterances with the aim of translating them. Second, in the years around 1980, the ethologists Peter Marler, Robert Seyfarth, and Dorothy Cheney used tape recorders (...)
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    Deviance, Darwinian-Style.Gregory Radick - 2005 - Metascience 14 (3):453-457.
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    Language, brain function, and human origins in the Victorian debates on evolution.Gregory Radick - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31 (1):55-75.
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    Race and language in the Darwinian tradition (and what Darwin’s language–species parallels have to do with it).Gregory Radick - 2008 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (3):359-370.
    What should human languages be like if humans are the products of Darwinian evolution? Between Darwin’s day & like the peoples speaking them are higher or lower in an evolutionarily generated scale This paper charts some of the changes in the Darwinian tradition that transformed the notion of human linguistic equality from creationist heresy., our own, expectations about evolution’s imprint on language have changed dramaticallyIt is now a commonplace that, for good Darwinian reasons, no language is more highly evolved than (...)
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    The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955–1965.Gregory Radick - 2016 - Isis 107 (1):49-73.
    A familiar story about mid-twentieth-century American psychology tells of the replacement of behaviorism by cognitive science. Between these two, however, lay a borderland, muddy and much trespassed-upon. This paper relocates the origins of the Chomskyan program in linguistics there. Following his introduction of transformational generative grammar, Chomsky mounted a highly publicized attack on behaviorist psychology. Yet when he first developed that approach to grammar, he was a defender of behaviorism. His anti-behaviorism emerged only in the course of what became a (...)
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  24. (1 other version)Replies to the Critics.Roger M. White, Jonathan Hodge & Gregory Radick - 2022 - Metascience 31 (2):163-169.
    As part of a review symposium on DARWIN'S ARGUMENT BY ANALOGY: FROM ARTIFICIAL TO NATURAL SELECTION (2021), the journal METASCIENCE invited Roger White, Jon Hodge and me to submit a response to the thoughtful commentaries on our book by Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, David Depew and Andrew Inkpen.
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    Origin’s Chapter I: How Breeders Work Their Magic.Gregory Radick - 2023 - In Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's “Origin”: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking. Springer. pp. 205-219.
    Darwin begins his “one long argument” not in the natural world of the deep past but – surprisingly and, for some readers, disappointingly – on the present-day world of the farm, providing a detailed look at domesticated plants and animals as well as the humans who breed them. Darwin’s opening chapter divides roughly into two halves. In the first half, Darwin surveys the amazing variability of plants and animals under domestication and some of the main causes of that variability. In (...)
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    Review. Darwin's spectre: Evolutionary biology in the modern world. MR rose.Gregory Radick - 2000 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (3):499-505.
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    Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation.Mark Day & Gregory Radick - 2008 - In Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 85–97.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What Is Historiographic Evidence? Bayesianism Bayesianism as a Model of Historiographic Reasoning Explanationism Towards an Explanationist Bayesianism Applications: Skepticism Applications: Underdetermination References Further Reading.
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    Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics.Gregory Radick - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):39-46.
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    Theory-Ladenness as a Problem for Plant Data Linkage.Gregory Radick - 2022 - In Hugh F. Williamson & Sabina Leonelli (eds.), Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development. Springer Verlag. pp. 27-36.
    This paper draws upon the history of scientific studies of inheritance in Mendel’s best-remembered model organism, the garden pea, as a source of two parables – one pessimistic, the other optimistic – on the challenges of data linkage in plants. The moral of the pessimistic parable, from the era of the biometrician-Mendelian controversy, is that the problem of theory-ladenness in data sets can be a major stumbling block to making new uses of old data. The moral of the optimistic parable, (...)
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  30. The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections.Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto & Gregory Radick (eds.) - 2024 - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
    The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life. Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to non-human organisms as agents, capable of performing activities serving their own goals such as surviving or reproducing, and whose doings in the world are thus to be explained teleologically. From an (...)
     
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    What’s in a name? The vervet predator calls and the limits of the Washburnian synthesis.Gregory Radick - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (2):334-362.
    After the Second World War, a renaissance in field primatology took place in the United States under the aegis of the ‘new physical anthropology’. Its leader, Sherwood Washburn, envisioned a science uniting studies of hominid fossils with Darwinian population genetics, experimental functional anatomy, and field observation of non-human primates and human hunter–gatherers. Thanks to Washburn’s stimulus, his colleague at Berkeley, the bird ethologist Peter Marler, took up the study of the natural communicative behaviour of apes and monkeys. When Marler’s first (...)
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    Darwin and the Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection in the ‘Origin of Species'.Jonathan Hodge, Gregory Radick & Roger M. White - 2020 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Gregory Radick.
    In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on (...)
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    Space: in science, art, and society.François Penz, Gregory Radick & Robert Howell (eds.) - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This collection of essays explores different perceptions of space, taking the reader on a journey from the inner space of the mind to the vacuum beyond Earth. Eight leading researchers span a broad range of fields, from the arts and humanities to the natural sciences. They consider topics ranging from human consciousness to virtual reality, architecture and politics. The essays are written in an accessible style for a general audience.
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    A critique of Kitcher on eugenic reasoning.Gregory Radick - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (4):741-751.
    Pre-natal genetic tests prompt questions about when, if ever, it is legitimate to choose against a potential life. Philip Kitcher has argued that test-based decisions should turn not on whether a potential life would have a disease (understood as dysfunction), but whether that life would be of low quality. I draw attention to difficulties with both parts of this argument, showing, first, that Kitcher ignores distinctions upon which the case for disease as dysfunction depends; and, second, that his analysis of (...)
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    Biomachine dreams.Gregory Radick - 2013 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (4):790-792.
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    Darwin in Ilkley.Gregory Radick & Mike Dixon - 2009 - Stroud, UK: The History Press.
    When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure' - a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin would put before the world: evolution by natural selection. In (...)
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  37. Darwin's Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection.Roger M. White, M. J. S. Hodge & Gregory Radick - 2021 - Cambridge University Press.
    In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on (...)
     
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    Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2023 - Journal of the History of Biology 56 (3):559-561.
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    (1 other version)Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the ‘Beagle’. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2013 - British Journal for the History of Science 46 (2):349-351.
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    (1 other version)Darwin’s Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, and Evolution. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2006 - Isis 97:578-579.
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    Evidence-Based Darwinism: Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science Elliott Sober Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2010 - Biological Theory 5 (3):289-291.
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    (1 other version)Ian Hacking, the social construction of what? Cambridge, ma and London: Harvard university press, 2000. Pp. X+261. Isbn 0-674-00412-4. £11·50. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2002 - British Journal for the History of Science 35 (1):97-123.
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    JAMES E. STRICK, Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+283. ISBN 0-674-00292-X. £30.95 . JAMES E. STRICK , Evolution and the Spontaneous Generation Debate. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001. Pp. 8007. 6 vols. ISBN 1-85506-872-9. £395.00, $630.00. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2):241-244.
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    Julia Voss. Darwin's Pictures: Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837–1874. Translated by, Lori Lantz. vii + 340 pp., illus., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010. $45. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2011 - Isis 102 (4):795-796.
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    Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston , Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-31720-5. £17.50. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Science 50 (3):562-563.
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    (1 other version)Ronald N. Giere. Scientific Perspectivism. iv + 151 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. $30 .Stephen H. Kellert;, Helen E. Longino;, C. Kenneth Waters . Scientific Pluralism. xxix + 248 pp., figs., tables, index. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. $50. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2009 - Isis 100 (1):206-207.
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    Essay Review: The Ethologist’s World. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2007 - Journal of the History of Biology 40 (3):565 - 575.
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    STEPHEN G. ALTER, Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii+193. ISBN 0-8018-5882-8. £32.50. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Science 33 (1):115-124.
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    Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, A Cultural History of Heredity. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Originally published in German in 2009. Pp. xiii+ 323. ISBN 978-0-226-54570-7. $50.00 . - Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden , Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 15. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xviii+ 302. ISBN 978-1-848-934269. £60.00. [REVIEW]Gregory Radick - 2014 - British Journal for the History of Science 47 (4):747-748.
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