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Where is the Edge of Objectivity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Barry Barnes  and
Steven Shapin
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 61 - 66
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1977

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