I. INTRODUCTION
Gabriele Gramelsberger
A Brief Introduction to the Volume – From Science to Computational Sciences – A Science History and Philosophy Overview
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
David Alan Grier
The Early Progress of Scientific Simulation
Thomas Brandstetter
Mimetic Experiments before the Invention of the Computer
Thomas Lange
Computer Simulation in the V2 Rocket Development
Peter Galison
Computer Simulations and the Trading Zone
Gabriele Gramelsberger
From Computation with Experiments to Experiments with Computation
III. REVERSE ENGINEERING OF NATURE BY NUMBERS
David Alan Grier
Towards A Definition of Simulation
Sergio Sismondo
Simulation as a New Style of Research: Iteration, Integration, and Instability
Johannes Lenhard
Artificial, False, and Performing Well
Erika Mansnerus
Explanatory and Predictive Functions of Simulation Modelling. Case: Haemophilus Influenzae type b Dynamic Transmission Models
Renate Mayntz
Research Technology, the Computer and Scientific Advance
Johann Feichter
The Earth System
Peter Bexte
Uncertainty in Grammar / The Grammar of Uncertainty. Some Remarks on the Future Perfect
IV. APPENDIX
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