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oapen-20.500.12657-639952023-07-20T02:48:17Z From Models to Simulations Varenne, Franck Alfred Nordmann;History of Science;History of Technology;History since 1800;Manipulation;Measurement;Modern History;Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Technology;Rob Langham;Scientific Ethics;Visualisation bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science & technology on society This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s. Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations. 2023-07-19T08:42:39Z 2023-07-19T08:42:39Z 2019 book 9780367586621 9781138065215 9781315159904 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63995 eng History and Philosophy of Technoscience application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781351660938.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315159904 10.4324/9781315159904 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780367586621 9781138065215 9781315159904 Routledge 237 open access
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This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s.
Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations.
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