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Imagery in scientific thought: creating 20th-century physics
Cambridge: MIT Press (1984)
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Arthur I. Miller is a historian of science whose approach has been strongly influenced by current work in cognitive science, and in this book he shows how the two fields might be fruitfully linked to yield new insights into the creative process.
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