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Postmodern Davy

Jan Golinski: The experimental self: Humphry Davy and the making of a man of science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016, vi + 259 pp, illus., US$30.00 Cloth & E-book

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James, F.A.J.L. Postmodern Davy. Metascience 27, 159–164 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0265-z

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