Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences - Google Books

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constitutive of reference in laboratory sciences as cultural sign systems and their manipulation and superposition, collectively shared classifications and associated conceptual frameworks,· and various fonns of collective action and social institutions.…