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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Bellingham, Washington, USA :
SPIE Press,
[2016]
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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.