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Book Review: École polytechnique and descriptive geometry: STEM before STEM. Évelyne Barbin, Marta Menghini, & Klaus Volkert (Eds.). (2019) Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: the legacy of Gaspard Monge

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Fried, M.N. Book Review: École polytechnique and descriptive geometry: STEM before STEM. Évelyne Barbin, Marta Menghini, & Klaus Volkert (Eds.). (2019) Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: the legacy of Gaspard Monge. Educ Stud Math 106, 313–321 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-020-10013-0

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