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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Isaac Barrow, Mathematical Lectures read in the Publick
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(Padua, 1961). Cassirer accepted the results of
Randall's inquiry but could not “subscribe to his conclu-
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HENRY GUERLAC

[See also Baconianism; Classification of the Sciences;
Cosmology; Experimental Science; Newton's Opticks;
Number; Optics; Unity of Science.]