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P. M. Harman (ed). Wranglers and Physicists. Studies on Cambridge [Mathematical] Physics in the Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 261. ISBN 0-7190-1756-4. £27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Frank A. J. L. James
Frank A. J. L. James
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Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 233 - 234
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1987

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