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Francisco Sanchez. Line engraving, 1649.

Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England / Katherine Eggert.

Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance / edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.

Ignorance : how it drives science / Stuart Firestein.

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Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England / Katherine Eggert.

Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance / edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.

Ignorance : how it drives science / Stuart Firestein.

Francisco Sanchez. Line engraving, 1649.