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Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes' Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856)

Isobel Falconer

This paper takes James David Forbes' Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, Dissertation Sixth, as a lens to examine physics as a cognitive, practical, and social, enterprise. Forbes wrot…