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Addis, Bill

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Agricola, Georgius

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Atkins, Peter

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Atkins, Peter

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Atkins, Peter

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Atkins, Peter

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Barrat, James

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Beinhocker, Eric D.

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Brockman, John

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Brockway, Lucile H.

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Browne, Janet

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Bruce, Robert V.

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Bryson, Bill

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Burke, James

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Cardwell, Donald

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Carroll, Sean

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Carson, Rachel

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Chancellor, Edward

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Cohen, Lizabeth

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Cormack, Lesley B., et al.

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Courtwright, David T.

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Cronon, William

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Darwin, Charles

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Darwin, Charles

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Daston, Lorraine, et al.

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Dawkins, Richard

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Dear, Peter

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Deaton, Angus

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Descartes, René

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Descartes, René

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Deutsch, David

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Diamond, Jared

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Dolnick, Edward

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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

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Ferguson, Niall

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Finocchiaro, Maurice A.

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Friedel, Robert

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Galilei, Galileo

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Galilei, Galileo

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Galison, Peter

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Galison, Peter

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Gingerich, Owen

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Ginzburg, Carlo

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Haidt, Jonathan

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Hankins, Thomas L.

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Harari, Yuval Noah

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Harris, Sam

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Hawking, Stephen

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Herman, Arthur

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Herman, Arthur

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Holmes, Richard

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Hounshell, David A., et al.

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Jacob, Margaret C.

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Kauffman, Stuart A.

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Kean, Sam

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Kevles, Daniel J.

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Kluger, Richard

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Kruass, Lawrence M.

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Kuhn, Thomas S.

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Larson, Erik

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Larson, Erik

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Latour, Bruno

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Lindberg, David C.

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Locke, John

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Lukes, Steven, et al.

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Macaulay, David

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Mann, Charles C.

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Marx, Leo

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McClellan, James E. III, et al.

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McCraw, Thomas K.

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McGinn, Robert E.

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McNeill, R. J.

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Newton, Isaac

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Oreskes, Naomi, et al.

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Pacey, Arnold

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Pickstone, John V.

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Piketty, Thomas

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Pinker, Steven

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Pinker, Steven

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Pinker, Steven

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Poirier, Jean-Pierre

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Porter, Theodore M.

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Postman, Neil

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Proctor, Robert N.

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Proctor, Robert N.

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Proctor, Robert N., et al.

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Riordan, Michael, et al.

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Riskin, Jessica

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Roger, Jacques

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Rosen, William

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Rosenberg, Nathan, et al.

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Rudwick, Martin J. S.

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Schiebinger, Londa

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Schiebinger, Londa

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Shapin, Steven

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Shapin, Steven, at al.

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Simmons, James R. Jr, et al.

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Skloot, Rebecca

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Smith, B. Mark

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Snow, C.P.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Verne, Jules

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Waldrop, M. Mitchell

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Weatherford, Jack

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White, Richard

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Wiebe, Robert H.

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Wootton, David

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