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To the Editors,Social Studies of Science Pittsburgh,13 March 1979 Dear Sirs

Social Studies of Science

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First published online November, 1979

To the Editors,Social Studies of Science Pittsburgh,13 March 1979 Dear Sirs

Volume 9, Issue 4

https://doi.org/10.1177/030631277900900410

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Robert K. Merton, 'Multiple Discoveries as a Strategic Research Site', in his The Sociology of Science (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973), 371-83.

For further discussion of Kroeber in this connection, see my 'On the Diversity and Co-Evolution of Technological Multiples', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 8 ( 1978), 183-210.

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