From Science to Computational Sciences: Studies in the History of Computing and Its Influence on Today's Sciences - Gramelsberger, Gabriele (Zürich Diaphanes, 2011)
Introduction / Gabriele Gramelsberger -- Roots and Media of Computational Power. Some Remarks on the Genesis and Genius of Quantification in Early European Modernity/ Sybille Krämer -- The Early Progress of Scientific Simulation / David Alan Grier -- Mimetic Experiments before the Invention of the Computer / Thomas Brandstetter -- Computer Simulation in the V2 Rocket Development / Thomas Lange -- Computer Simulations and the Trading Zone / Peter Galison -- From Computation with Experiments to Experiments with Computation / Gabriele Gramelsberger -- Towards A Definition of Simulation/ David Alan Grier -- Simulation as a New Style of Research: Iteration, Integration, and Instability / Sergio Sismondo -- Artificial, False, and Performing Well / Johannes Lenhard -- Explanatory and Predictive Functions of Simulation Modelling. Case: Haemophilus Influenzae type b Dynamic Transmission Models/ Erika Mansnerus -- Research Technology, the Computer and Scientific Advance / Renate Mayntz -- The Earth System/ Johann Feichter -- Uncertainty in Grammar / The Grammar of Uncertainty. Some Remarks on the Future Perfect / Peter Bexte -- Appendix
Keywords: 20th Century (1901-2000); 21st Century (2001-2100); Computer science; Science