The evolution of scientific knowledge : from certainty to uncertainty /

"This book aims to provide scientists and engineers, and those interested in scientific issues, with a concise account of how the nature of scientific knowledge evolved from antiquity to a seemingly final form in the Twentieth Century that now strongly limits the knowledge that people would lik...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dougherty, Edward R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Washington, USA : SPIE Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why epistemology?
  • Pre-Galilean science
  • The birth of modern science
  • Reflections on the new science
  • A mathematical-observational duality
  • Complex systems: a new epistemological crisis
  • Translational science under uncertainty.