This chapter has two aims: to furnish a bird’s-eye view of the book’s historical argument, and to explain its method. Let me deal with the method first.
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(2009). Astronomical Reform and Occupation Politics. In: Granting the Seasons. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9_1
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