Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger FU Institute of Philosophy Home Research Publications Workshops Teaching Talks Contact/Editorial		Gabriele Gramelsberger (ed.): From Science to Computational Sciences. Studies in the History of Computing and its Influence on Today's Sciences, diaphanes: Zurich/Berlin 2011 / The University of Chicago Press 2015 In 1946 John von Neumann stated that science is stagnant along the entire front of complex problems, proposing the use of largescale computing machines to overcome this stagnation. In other words, Neumann advocated replacing analytical methods with numerical ones. The invention of the computer in the 1940s allowed scientists to realise numerical simulations of increasingly complex problems like weather forecasting, climate and molecular modelling. Today, computers are widely used as computational laboratories, shifting science toward the computational sciences. By replacing analytical methods with numerical ones, they have expanded theory and experimentation by simulation. The volume gives a historical insight into the development of dynamical models and simulations. 2011, April, 234 pp. ISBN 978-3-03734-093-6 diaphanes Zurich/Berlin Series History of Science 2015, The University of Chicago Press »UCP information (external link, english) Content table I. INTRODUCTION Gabriele Gramelsberger A Brief Introduction to the Volume - 11 From Science to Computational Sciences - A Science History and Philosophy Overview - 19 II. ORIGINS OF SIMULATION AND RATIONAL PROGNOSIS Sybille Krämer Roots and Media of Computational Power. Some Remarks on the Genesis and Genius of Quantification in Early European Modernity - 45 David Alan Grier The Early Progress of Scientific Simulation - 57 Thomas Brandstetter Mimetic Experiments before the Invention of the Computer - 65 Thomas Lange Computer Simulation in the V2 Rocket Development - 85 Peter Galison Computer Simulations and the Trading Zone - 97 Gabriele Gramelsberger From Computation with Experiments to Experiments with Computation - 131 III. REVERSE ENGINEERING OF NATURE BY NUMBERS David Alan Grier Towards A Definition of Simulation - 145 Sergio Sismondo Simulation as a New Style of Research: Iteration, Integration, and Instability - 151 Johannes Lenhard Artificial, False, and Performing Well - 165 Erika Mansnerus Explanatory and Predictive Functions of Simulation Modelling. Case: Haemophilus Influenzae type b Dynamic Transmission Models - 177 Renate Mayntz Research Technology, the Computer and Scientific Advance - 195 Johann Feichter The Earth System - 209 Peter Bexte Uncertainty in Grammar / The Grammar of Uncertainty. Some Remarks on the Future Perfect - 219 IV. APPENDIX Authors - 229