By Aitor Anduaga
earth's crust. although, what led physicists and engineers to undertake realist attitudes? This e-book means that a brand new type of realism —a realism of social and cultural origins- is the reply: a initial, entity realism responding to precise advertisement and engineering pursuits, and a realism that was
neither strictly instrumental nor solely operational. The e-book has elements: whereas half I makes a speciality of the examine of the ionosphere and the way the British radio affected ionospheric physics, half II makes a speciality of the examine of the Earth's crust and the way the yankee oil affected crustal seismology.
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