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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: How few of them would be able to make a telescope, or even a plainer instrument!

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How few of them would be able to make a telescope, or even a plainer instrument!
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the lack of practical skills among scientists, questioning their ability to create even basic instruments.

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