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Jennifer Karns Alexander is an associate professor in the Program for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Antonio A. P. Videira is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 17, 161–168 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-015-0163-y
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