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The uses of style and the ‘big picture’ history of science

Chunglin Kwa: Styles of knowing: A new history of science from ancient times to the present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, 376pp, $27.95 PB

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Boantza, V.D. The uses of style and the ‘big picture’ history of science. Metascience 23, 625–631 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9881-z

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