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On Smell and Scientific Practice

Published:2006-08-11 Issue:5788 Volume:313 Page:763-764
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Solomon Miriam¹

Affiliation:

1. The reviewer is in the Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.

Abstract

The Secret of Scent . Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell. By Luca Turin . Faber and Faber, London, 2006. 217 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0-571-21537-8. Forthcoming from Ecco, New York. ISBN 0-06-113383-3. A biophysicist and perfume critic describes his obsession with olfaction and his controversial theory that we smell primarily by detecting the vibrational frequency of molecules.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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2. Turin L., chap 23, The Smell Culture Reader, , Drobnick J., Ed. (Berg, Oxford, 2006).

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