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The possibilities for learning the craft of the historian of science were hardly existent when I was a student; even today they are not abundant. In my case I learned what I could through a few, albeit very important, personal contacts, and one of the teachers I honour here.
Originally published in Essays on the History of Mechanics. In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto, Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte, eds. (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2003), pp. 235’249.
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Williams, K. (2011). What can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of the Fine Arts?. In: Williams, K. (eds) Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0139-3_4
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