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↑ 3.03.1"The historian . . . requires a very broad definition of "science"—one that . . . will help us to understand the modern scientific enterprise. We need to be broad and inclusive, rather than narrow and exclusive . . . and we should expect that the farther back we go [in time] the broader we will need to be." p. 3—Lindberg, David C. (2007). "Science before the Greeks". The beginnings of Western science: the European Scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context (secunda ed.). Sicagi: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1–20. ISBN978-0-226-48205-7.
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