Ars scientia mores: science comes to English dentistry in the seventeenth century. 1. Medical publications and the Royal Society
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Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.156