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- | The '''''one-sex and two-sex theory''''' are two [[scientific modelling|model]]s of [[human anatomy]] or fetal development discussed in [[Thomas Laqueur]]'s book ''[[Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud]]''. He theorizes that a fundamental change in attitudes toward human [[sex organ|sexual anatomy]] occurred in [[Europe]] in the 18th and 19th centuries. Prior to the eighteenth century, it was a common belief that women and men represented two different forms of one essential sex: that is, women were seen to possess the same fundamental [[Reproductive system|reproductive structure]] as men, the only difference being that female [[Sex organ|genitalia]] was inside the body, not outside of it. Anatomists saw the [[vagina]] as an interior [[penis]], the [[Labia (genitalia)|labia]] as [[foreskin]], the [[uterus]] as [[scrotum]], and the [[ovary|ovaries]] as [[testicle]]s. However, around the 18th century, the dominant view became that of two sexes directly opposite to each other. There was an abundance of literature written in the 18th century supporting the two sex model. [[Jacques-Louis Moreau]] wrote that "not only are the sexes different, but they are different in every conceivable aspect of body and soul, in every physical and moral aspect. To the physician or the naturalist, the relation of woman to man is a series of opposites and contrasts". Women and men began to be seen as polar opposites and each sex was compared in relation to the other. [[Gender]], prior to the eighteenth century, was not prescribed upon individual; a man could be physically male, but he could have a feminine [[gender identity]].{{Clarify|date=February 2011}} This was seen as being normal and even acceptable. With the switch to the two sex model, differences that had been expressed with reference to gender now came to be expressed with reference to sex and to [[biology]]. | + | '''Scientific modelling''' is the process of generating abstract, [[conceptual model|conceptual]], [[graphical model|graphical]] or [[Mathematical model|mathematical]] models. Science offers a growing collection of [[Scientific method|methods]], techniques and [[theory]] about all kinds of specialized scientific modelling. A scientific model can provide a way to read elements easily which have been broken down to a simpler form. |
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+ | Modelling is an essential and inseparable part of all scientific activity, and many scientific disciplines have their own ideas about specific types of modelling. There is an increasing attention for scientific modelling in fields such as of [[philosophy of science]], [[systems theory]], and [[knowledge visualization]]. | ||
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+ | == See also == | ||
+ | * [[List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics]] | ||
+ | * [[List of graphical methods]] | ||
+ | * [[Modelling language]] | ||
+ | * [[Scientific visualization]] | ||
+ | * [[Seven Management and Planning Tools]] | ||
+ | * [[Simulation]] | ||
+ | * [[Systems Engineering]] | ||
+ | * [[Toy model]] | ||
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Scientific modelling is the process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical or mathematical models. Science offers a growing collection of methods, techniques and theory about all kinds of specialized scientific modelling. A scientific model can provide a way to read elements easily which have been broken down to a simpler form.
Modelling is an essential and inseparable part of all scientific activity, and many scientific disciplines have their own ideas about specific types of modelling. There is an increasing attention for scientific modelling in fields such as of philosophy of science, systems theory, and knowledge visualization.
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See also
- List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics
- List of graphical methods
- Modelling language
- Scientific visualization
- Seven Management and Planning Tools
- Simulation
- Systems Engineering
- Toy model
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