From Models to Simulations

• Main Author: Varenne, Franck
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2019; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Subjects: Alfred Nordmann; 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; Biological systems; Biological systems-Computer simulation; Biological systems-Mathematical models; Book Industry Communication; Computer Science; History; History and Archaeology; History and Overview; History of Science; History of Science & Technology; History of Technology; History since 1800; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences; Humanities; Humanities and Social Sciences; Impact of science & technology on society; Impact of science and technology on society; Manipulation; Mathematics; Mathematics & science; Mathematics and Science; Measurement; Modeling and Simulation; Modern History; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Technology; Rob Langham; Science: general issues; thema EDItEUR; Visualisation; Measurement; Horton's Law; Philosophy of Science; Rob Langham; Architectural Simulation; Coffee Plant; Plant Simulation Models; Epistemic Functions; Complex Simulation Models; ENSAT; Modern History; Elementary Time Steps; Formal Model Method; Minimum Basic Agreement; Digital Mock Ups; History of Technology; Theoretical Computer Science; Common Language; Branching Order; Scientific Ethics; Philosophy of Technology; History of Science; Statistical Model Schema; Relational Biology; Plant Morphogenesis; Enumerative Combinatorics; Computer Infrastructure; Alfred Nordmann; Louis Pasteur University; SSM; Cellular Automata; Trajectory Matching; Illuminance Simulation; Manipulation; Visualisation; History since 1800; Mathematical Expression; Morphogenesis; Simulations; Epistemology; Models; Biology; Plants
• ISBN: 9780367586621; 0367586622; 1138065218; 9781138065215; 1315159902; 9781315159904
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315159904

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.