Abstract
We owe to Mark Twain’s irony the following description of one way of reconstructing history:
In real life the right thing never happens at the right place at the right time:—it is the business of the historian to remedy this mistake.1
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Mondadori Publishing Company for allowing me to present the following sections, slightly modified, from Il mondo di carta, riceche sulla seconda rivoluzione scientifica (Miland, 1979). [Eng. tr.: A World on Paper: Studies in the Second Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1980.]
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Bellone, E. (1980). The History of Science as the History of Dictionaries*. In: Dalla Chiara, M.L. (eds) Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8937-5_25
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