Brian Campbell Vickery vs. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Brian Campbell Vickery
1918 – 2009
Brian Campbell Vickery was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.
"History presents a series of cultural epochs. Each is a span of years within which knowledge presents a more or less unified structure which can be expressed in…"
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
1901 – 1972
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things.
"We find systems which by their very nature and definition are not closed systems. Every living organism is essentially an open system. It maintains itself in a …"
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