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345
Opticks (Newton), 28
Optimization, 197, 207
Order, 12, 18, 126, 131, 143,
171-75, 238, 246, 250-5 1,
286-87
Order through fluctuation, 159,
178; models based on
concept of, 206
Organization theory, xxiv
Oscillating chemical reactions,
19, 147-49
Oscillations: glycolytic, 155;
time- and space-dependent,
148
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 324n
Pascal, Blaise, 3, 36, 79
Pasteur, Louis, 163
Pattern selection, 163, 164
Pearson, Karl, 49
Peirce, Charles S., 17, 302-3
Pendulum, 16, 73, 216, 261-62
Phase changes, 187
Phase space, 247-50, 261, 264;
delocalization in, 289;
unstable systems in, 266-72
Photons, 230, 288
Physicists, The (DOerrenmatt),
21
Physics: application of concepts
to evolution, 207-9; Bergson
on, 91, 92; changing
perspective in, 8-9;
complementary developments
in biology and, 154; and
concepts of change, 63;
conceptual distinction
between chemistry and, 137;
Diderot on, 80-83;
evolutionary paradigm in,
297-98; inspired discourse of,
76; introduction of
probability in, 123; and laws
of motion, 57; Lucretian,
141 ; macroscopic, xii;
objectivity in, 55 ; positivist
view of, 97; of processes,
INDEX
243 ; and theology, 49; time
in, 116; vitalism and, 84;
Whitehead on, 95, 96
Planck, Max, 121, 219, 242,
324n, 329n, 33 ln; on second
law of thermodynamics,
234-35
Planck's constant, 217, 219,
220, 223, 224
Planetary motion: Kepler's laws
for, 57; in Newtonian
dynamics, 59, 64
Plato, 7, 39, 67
Poincare, Jules Henn, 68, t2,
97, 151, 236, 243, 253, 265
27 1
Poisson distribution, 179-8 1
Pope, Alexander, 27, 67
Popper, Karl, 5, 15, 254-55,
258-59, 276, 317n
Populiire Schriften
(Boltzmann), 240
Positive-feedback loops, xvit
Positivism, 80, 96-98; Comte
and, 104-5; German
philosophy and, 109
Potential: dynamic, 69-70;
thermodynamic, 126, 138-40
Potential energy, 69-70, 73, 107
Prebiotic evolution, 190-91
Pre-Socratics, 38-39
Principia (Newton), l, 28
Probability, 122-24; Einstein
on, 259; at equilibrium, 286;
in far-from-equilibrium
conditions, 143; entropy and
142, 274, 297; and
fluctuations, 178, 179; and
irreversibility, 233-40; in
quantum mechanics, 227;
subjective vs. objective
interpretations of, 274; in
unstable systems, 271-72
Process: physics of, 12, 105,
107, 243; Whitehead's
concept of, 258, 303
Process and Reality
(Whitehead), 93, 96, 310