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Catherine Watts, Language change and nineteenth-century science: New words, new worlds (Routledge Studies in Cultural History). London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 9780367709839.

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Catherine Watts, Language change and nineteenth-century science: New words, new worlds (Routledge Studies in Cultural History). London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii + 248. ISBN 9780367709839.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2025

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Leida Maria Monaco*
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