VIGNOIA, "LA REGOLA DELLI CINQUE ORDINI D'ARCHITETTURA" : ON THE FIRST EDITION

Preface to the First Edition

Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment combines the earth science fields of subsurface hydrology and environmental geochemistry and aims to provide a comprehensive background for students and researchers interested in protection and sustainable management of the subsurface environment. This book focuses on the upper part of the earth’s crust, covering...

Preface to the First Edition

First Edition “We are to admit no more causes of natural things” (as we are told by Newton) than “such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” This central theme is basic to the pursuit of science, and goes back to the principle known as Occam’s razor: “if presented with a choice between indifferent alternatives, then one ought to select the simplest one.” Unconsciously o...

Preface to the First Edition

The present volume is intended as a contribution to the theory of those systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environment, and which utilize the predictions of their models to control their present behavior. Systems of this type have a variety of properties which are unique to them, just as “closed-loop” systems have properties which make them different ...

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the First Edition

First Edition “We are to admit no more causes of natural things” (as we are told by Newton) than “such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” This central theme is basic to the pursuit of science, and goes back to the principle known as Occam’s razor: “if presented with a choice between indifferent alternatives, then one ought to select the simplest one.” Unconsciously o...