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The public culture of science in nineteenth-century France

Robert Fox: The savant and the state: Science and cultural politics in nineteenth-century France. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, 408pp, $60.00

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Nye, M.J. The public culture of science in nineteenth-century France. Metascience 22, 697–702 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9785-3

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