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Risk management plays an increasingly important role in systems engineering, project management and decision making. Risk assessment and management techniques are increasingly applied in future planning and risk decisions of enterprises. One area very important to the evaluation…

In the dissertation, set in the early phases of the Scientific Revolution, I use a series of sixteenth-century legal disputes over the practice of navigation to probe the construction of the idea of the utility of science and the growth of state patronage of science. I show how …