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in history of science when it was created at Oxford in 1971. He retired in 1983 and took up a half-time appointment as
Kennedy Professor in the Renaissance at Smith College, Massachusetts, and was Professor of History of Science and Medicine there from 1983 to 1985. He also held many visiting
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