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We presently 'see' the universe as a tremendous hierarchy, from elementary
particles to atomic nuclei, to atoms, molecules, high-molecular compounds, to the
wealth of structures (electron- and lightmicroscopic) between molecules and cells
...
We presently 'see' the universe as a tremendous hierarchy, from elementary
particles to atomic nuclei, to atoms, molecules, high-molecular compounds, to the
wealth of structures (electron- and lightmicroscopic) between molecules and cells
...
Page 30
In the Heisenberg relation and quantum physics, it became impossible to resolve
phenomena into local events; problems of order and organization appear
whether the question is the structure of atoms, the architecture of proteins, ...
In the Heisenberg relation and quantum physics, it became impossible to resolve
phenomena into local events; problems of order and organization appear
whether the question is the structure of atoms, the architecture of proteins, ...
Page 227
Strictly speaking, spatial boundaries exist only in naïve observation, and all
boundaries are ultimately dynamic. One cannot exactly draw the boundaries of
an atom (with valencies sticking out, as it were, to attract other atoms), of a stone (
an ...
Strictly speaking, spatial boundaries exist only in naïve observation, and all
boundaries are ultimately dynamic. One cannot exactly draw the boundaries of
an atom (with valencies sticking out, as it were, to attract other atoms), of a stone (
an ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
º | 53 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications Penguin University Books |
| Author | Ludwig von Bertalanffy |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Allen Lane, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2019 |
| ISBN | 0713901926, 9780713901924 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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