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  1. Quoted in Hilary Rose and Stephen Rose, “Darwin and After,” New Left Review 63 (May–June 2010), 93.

  2. Quoted in Gillian Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. 222.

  3. Ibid., p. 235.

  4. Giambattista Vico, On the Study Methods of Our Time, translated by Elio Gianturco (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), p. 44.

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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 13, 114–123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-011-0052-y

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