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Why was Faraday excluded from the Sandemanians in 1844?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Geoffrey Cantor
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Division of History & Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, The University of Leeds, Leeds 1.S2 9JT, U.K.

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989

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