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Instrument and Reality: The Case of Terrestrial Magnetism and the Northern Lights : Willem Hackmann
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:29-51 (1995)
Abstract
In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the role of instruments in the study of nature, both by historians and by philosophers of science, and even by a few art historians who are interested by the images produced by these devicesMy notes
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