Four diarists and the new science of the seventeenth century.

As we stubbornly search for beginnings we are forced to content ourselves with the recognition of significant middles. One man's enmity can change the course of history, and in the seventeenth century one man’s humanitarianism changed the outlook of an age. Brahe, Kepler and Gilbert had underst...

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Main Author:	Cleghorn, Sheena.
Other Authors:	Files, H. (Supervisor)
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	McGill University 1961
Subjects:	English.
Online Access:	http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=113361

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Four diarists and the new science of the seventeenth century.

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