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Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. HarperCollins, 2015, xiv + 416 pages, $28.99

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  1. See, for instance, Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

  2. Francis Bacon, The New Organon, Book I, Aphorism LXI.

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Correspondence to Peter Pesic.

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Peter Pesic is director of the Science Institute at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, where he is also tutor emeritus and musician-in-residence.

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Pesic, P. Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. HarperCollins, 2015, xiv + 416 pages, $28.99. Phys. Perspect. 17, 156–160 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-015-0162-z

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