The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science is an encyclopedia on the history of science from around the middle of the 16th century (the early modern period) to the beginning of the 21st century. The book includes 609 articles by over two hundred authors.
The editor-in-chief was J. L. Heilbron and the editors were James Bartholomew, Jim Bennett, Frederic L. Holmes, Rachel Laudan and Giuliano Pancaldi. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.[1]
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- Encyclopedias on history
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