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Deux exemples d’expérimentations mortelles

Abstract: The anatomical dissection of dead bodies can be considered as some kind of experimentation. Among the parameters that the experimenter can vary—to support a theory, highlight certain facts, or carry out precise measurements—are...

Of Making Cloth: Some Epistemological Lessons

          On November 27, 1661, William Petty presented a “history of clothing” at a meeting of the Royal Society as part of a collective endeavour to collect information about various...