NEWS 26 February 2026

Historical view on determinism and precision engineering design

Paralleling the historical beginnings of modern science, assessing and addressing variation in physical systems constitutes the foundation of precision engineering. Tycho Brahe gave us the measurement data to analyse the heavens.

Kepler and Newton gave us laws (models) from that data. Natural law implied (to Laplace) a natural absolute determinism. Human transcendence, however, allows the precision engineer to intelligently intervene into this absolute determinism to bring nature into predictably precise subjection for profitable uses. To conclude this Mikroniek article, indeterminability is briefly addressed. (Image source: Tychonis Brahe, Astronomi Instaurat Mechanica)

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