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  1. Paper Tools In Experimental Cultures.Ursula Klein - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 32 (2):265-302.
    The paper studies various functions of Berzelian formulas in European organic chemistry prior to the mid-nineteenth century from a semiotic, historical and epistemological perspective. I argue that chemists applied Berzelian formulas as productive ‘paper tools’ for creating a chemical order in the ‘jungle’ of organic chemistry. Beginning in the late 1820s, chemists applied chemical formulas to build models of the binary constitution of organic compounds in analogy to inorganic compounds. Based on these formula models, they constructed new classifications of organic (...)
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  • Civilizing knowledge.Joseph Rouse - 2005 - History and Theory 44 (3):416–430.
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  • The Exigencies of War and the Stink of a Theoretical Problem: Understanding the Genesis of Feynman’s Quantum Electrodynamics as Mechanistic Modelling at Different Levels.Adrian Wüthrich - 2018 - Perspectives on Science 26 (4):501-520.
    In 1949, Richard Feynman published the essentials of his solution to the recalcitrant problems that plagued quantum theories of electrodynamics of his days. The main problem was that the theory, that was considered to be correct and often led to correct observable consequences, also implied that some quantities should be infinite, while by common sense or empirical evidence they were finite. Feynman devised a method of solving the relevant theoretical equations in which particular combinations of elementary solutions yielded empirically adequate (...)
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  • The Epistemologies of Non-Forecasting Simulations, Part II: Climate, Chaos, Computing Style, and the Contextual Plasticity of Error.Lambert Williams & William Thomas - 2009 - Science in Context 22 (2):271-310.
    ArgumentWe continue our analysis of modeling practices that focus more on qualitative understanding of system behavior than the attempt to provide sharp forecasts. The argument here is built around three episodes: the ambitious work of the Princeton Meteorological Project; the seemingly simple models of convection in weather systems by Edward Lorenz at MIT; and then finally analysis of the dripping faucet by Robert Shaw and the Dynamical Systems Collective at UC Santa Cruz. Using the Princeton Meteorological Project as an argumentative (...)
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  • Feynman Diagrams: Modeling between Physics and Mathematics.Michael Stöltzner - 2018 - Perspectives on Science 26 (4):482-500.
    Since its inception in the late 1920s and 30s, the main problem of quantum electrodynamics had been that any interaction or scattering event involved processes of a higher order that arose from vacuum polarization, the creation and subsequent annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs, and the mutual interactions of all those short-lived entities.1 These processes posed two kinds of conceptual problems. First, they were not detectable individually, but had a measurable effect on the energy of the overall process. Even in simple quantum (...)
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  • The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose‐Einstein Statistics.Daniela Monaldi - 2019 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42 (4):307-337.
    This paper is a preliminary exploration of the connections between the statistical style of reasoning and the research practices of statistical mechanics in the early period of the long quantum revolution. It suggests that before 1925 the instantiations of the statistical style in physics went through two phases. The first phase consisted of the formulation of the Maxwell‐Boltzmann statistics on the basis of the population‐gas analogy. The second phase was characterized by the generalization of the Maxwell‐Boltzmann statistics through analogies between (...)
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  • Beyond Ideology: Epistemological Foundations of Vladimir Fock's approach to Quantum Theory.Jean-Philippe Martinez - 2019 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42 (4):400-423.
    Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
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  • Quantum Cultures: Historical Perspectives on the Practices of Quantum Physicists.Christian Joas & Thiago Hartz - 2019 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42 (4):281-289.
    Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 281-289, December 2019.
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  • Pictures and pedagogy: The role of diagrams in Feynman's early lectures.Ari Gross - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 43 (3):184-194.
    This paper aims to give a substantive account of how Feynman used diagrams in the first lectures in which he explained his new approach to quantum electrodynamics. By critically examining unpublished lecture notes, Feynman’s use and interpretation of both "Feynman diagrams" and other visual representations will be illuminated. This paper discusses how the morphology of Feynman’s early diagrams were determined by both highly contextual issues, which molded his images to local needs and particular physical characterizations, and an overarching common diagrammatic (...)
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  • Reflections on image and logic: A material culture of microphysics.Peter Galison - 1999 - Perspectives on Science 7 (2):255-284.
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  • Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics.Marco Forgione - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):136-148.
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  • The modular structure of physical theories.Olivier Darrigol - 2008 - Synthese 162 (2):195 - 223.
    Any advanced theory of physics contains modules defined as essential components that are themselves theories with different domains of application. Different kinds of modules can be distinguished according to the way in which they fit in the symbolic and interpretive apparatus of a theory. The number and kind of the modules of a given theory vary as the theory evolves in time. The relative stability of modules and the variability of their insertion in other theories play a vital role in (...)
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  • The state is not abolished, it withers away: How quantum field theory became a theory of scattering.Alexander S. Blum - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 60:46-80.
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