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Models as make-believe: imagination, fiction, and scientific representation
New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (2012)
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Models as Make-Believe offers a new approach to scientific modelling by looking to an unlikely source of inspiration: the dolls and toy trucks of children's games of make-believe.Author's Profile
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