Models as Make-Believe

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Volumn 262, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-96

  Toon, Adam ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actual Object; Ether Model; Scientific Model; Scientific Representation; Simple Harmonic Oscillator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101969760     PISSN: 00680346     EISSN: 22147942     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3851-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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