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The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe
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- Creator
- edited by Carla Rita Palmerino and J.M.M.H. Thijssen
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
- ©2004
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- 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781402024542, 1402024541
- OCLC
- ocm55517991
- Includes bibliographical references 261-270) and index.
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