This chapter traces the early roots of the maximum power principle in eighteenth and nineteenth century science and philosophy. It demonstrates that many scientists (and others) saw something like the MPP in the systems they studied, and that the idea was “in the air.”

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The Historical Roots of Maximum Power

  • Timothy McWhirter

摘要

This chapter traces the early roots of the maximum power principle in eighteenth and nineteenth century science and philosophy. It demonstrates that many scientists (and others) saw something like the MPP in the systems they studied, and that the idea was “in the air.”