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Styles of Experimentation and Alchemical Matter Theory in the Scientific Revolution

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Klein, U. Styles of Experimentation and Alchemical Matter Theory in the Scientific Revolution. Metascience 16, 247–256 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-007-9095-8

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