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Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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