Rivka Feldhay - Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century

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71Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century
Edited by Rivka Feldhay and F. Jamil Ragep

The Cultures and Contexts
of Scientific Learning
in the Fifteenth Century

Edited by

Rivka Feldhay and F. Jamil Ragep

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