A literary approach to scientific practice: R. I. G. Hughes: The theoretical practices of physics: Philosophical essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 289pp, £35.00, $ 75.00 HB

Metascience 20 (2):363--367 (2010)
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A literary approach to scientific practice: Essay Review of R.I.G. Hughes' _The Theoretical Practices of Physics_

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Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics.Peter Galison (ed.) - 1997 - University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
Models and representation.Richard Hughes - 1997 - Philosophy of Science 64 (4):336.

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