The Engineering IdealLoeb’s Ghost, or Something Else?

Crowe, Nathan

doi:10.1525/hsns.2020.50.5.624

The Engineering Ideal: Loeb’s Ghost, or Something Else?

Luis A. Campos,

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Sophia Roosth,

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Nathan Crowe

Department of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28409; crowen@uncw.edu.

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2020) 50 (5): 624–632.

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