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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

Joyce E. Chaplin

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ISBN 9780674011229

Publication Date: 02/28/2003

428 pages

7 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 2 tables

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Joyce E. Chaplin is Professor of History at Harvard University.

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