Scientific concepts in the engineering sciences: Epistemic tools for creating and intervening with phenomena

Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-243

  Boon, Mieke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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