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Unearthing a buried memory

Stefano Bordoni: Taming complexity: Duhem’s third pathway to thermodynamics. Urbino: Editrice Montefeltro, 2012, 288pp, €30.00 PB

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  1. Ostwald’s energetics is comprehensively discussed by Deltete (2007–2008).

  2. The relevant works are translated as Duhem (2000, 2002).

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Needham, P. Unearthing a buried memory. Metascience 23, 87–91 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9832-0

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