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- ↑ Papanelopoulou, F.; Nieto-Galan, A.; Perdiguero, E. (2009). "Circumventing the "Elusive Quarries" of Popular Science: The Communication and Appropriation of Ganot's Physics in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Josep Simon". Popularising Science and Technology in the European Periphery (PDF). Ashgate: Aldershot. pp. 89–114. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 June 2013.
- ↑ Simon, Josep; Herran, Nestor (2008). "The Franco-British communication and appropriation of Ganot's Physique (1851–1881)". Beyond Borders : Fresh Perspectives in History of Science (PDF). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub. p. 141ff. ISBN 9781847184832.
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