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Revolution without progress

Barbara Hahn: Technology in the industrial revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 225pp, £18.99 PB

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Heyberger, L. Revolution without progress. Metascience 29, 481–483 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00566-4

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