William Whewell: A Composite Portrait by Menachem Fisch; Simon Schaffer [Book Review]

Isis 84:811-811 (1993)
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Review of: Menachem Fisch; Simon Schaffer (Editors). William Whewell: A Composite Portrait. xiv + 403 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1991. $98.

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