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Our world might never have been more stable, both ontologically and politically, than at the time when it stood on the firm ground of the laws of Newtonian mechanics, developed into a beautiful mathematical structure by the brilliant French and German mathematicians of the Age of Enlightenment (Sect. 2.1).
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Pismen, L. (2018). Complexity Simplified. In: The Swings of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99777-3_8
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