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The Laws of Motion*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

G. J. Whitrow
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 217 - 234
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1971

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