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Italian Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Dorinda Outram
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, University of London.

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1982

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1 For a similar characterisation applied by Victor Hugo to the history of literature, see p. 1239n. of the present volume. For Cuvier, see his Discours de réception on entry to the Académie française, 27 August, 1818, Receuil des éloges historiques 3 vols., Paris–Strasbourg, 18191827, II, 443–67Google Scholar; Outram, Dorinda, ‘The language of natural power: the éloges of Georges Cuvier’, History of Science, 1978, 16, 153–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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