The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-century Science.
Edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter. Pp.500. ISBN 0-521-22599-X. (Cambridge University Press: 1980.) £25, $39.50.
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Reader in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster and President of the British Society for the History of Science. He is the author of a critical edition of Sadi Carnot's Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (Vrin, Paris: 1978).
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Fox, R. Historians of science confront the hydra. Nature 291, 270 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291270a0
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