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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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- Architectural Simulation
- Branching Order
- Cellular automata
- Coffee Plant
- common language
- Complex Simulation Models
- Computer Infrastructure
- Digital Mock Ups
- Elementary Time Steps
- ENSAT
- enumerative combinatorics
- Epistemic Functions
- Formal Model Method
- Horton’s Law
- Illuminance Simulation
- Louis Pasteur University
- Mathematical Expression
- Minimum Basic Agreement
- Plant Morphogenesis
- Plant Simulation Models
- relational biology
- SSM
- Statistical Model Schema
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
- theoretical computer science
- Trajectory Matching
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315159904Editions