Richard Yeo, Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 280. ISBN 0-521-43182-4. £35.00, $54.95 [Book Review]

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