Book ID: CBB000950311

Creating Scientific Concepts (2008)

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Nersessian, Nancy J. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiv + 251 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Churchland, Paul (2009) Review of "Creating Scientific Concepts". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 961). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nersessian, Nancy J.
Gutiérrez Valderrama, Juliana
Nyrup, Rune
Rodrigues Almeida, Carla
Hélène Gaget
Mason, Daniel
Journals
Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Science and Education
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Springer
Oxford University Press
Kluwer Academic
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Models and modeling in science
Metaphors; analogies
Philosophy of science
Cognitive science
Methodology of science; scientific method
Communication of scientific ideas
People
Kepler, Johannes
Firestone, Floyd A.
Maxwell, James Clerk
Conant, James Bryant
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
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