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Before trying to get us tied up in new knots, I should like to tidy up some loose ends left by the knots of the last two chapters.
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The First Edition attributed the translation to Hanson, but the text is identical to that provided by Whewell. For Lactantius’ thoughts “On the Heretical Doctrine of the Globular Form of the Earth” in full context, see Lactantius (1964, bk. 3, ch. 24, 228–30)—MDL.
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Lund, M.D. (2018). Scientific Simplicity and Crucial Experiments. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) Perception and Discovery. Synthese Library, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69745-1_14
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