Science & Education

October 2014, Volume 23, Issue 10, pp 2137–2148 | Cite as

Peter Achinstein: Evidence and Method: Scientific Strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell

Oxford University Press, New York, 2013, ISBN: 978-0199921850, 177 pp., $ 22.46

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• Ricardo Karam
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1. 1.Faculty of Education (Physics Education Group)University of HamburgHamburgGermany