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Scientific Thought of the Early Nineteenth Century

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A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790–1850. By Charles Coulston Gillispie. (Harvard Historical Studies published from the income of the Henry Warren Torrey Fund, Vol. 58.) Pp. xv + 315. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951.) 30s. net.

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EYLES, V. Scientific Thought of the Early Nineteenth Century. Nature 171, 714 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171714a0

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