Stick-figure realism: Conventions, reification, and the persistence of Feynman diagrams, 1948-1964

Representations

Volumn 70, Issue , 2001, Pages 49-86

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DOI: 10.1525/rep.2000.70.1.01p00694     Document Type: Review

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