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            Verveen, A.A., 1971. In search of
processes: the early history of cybernetics.  
            Mathematical
Biosciences 11:
5-29.  
     Translation
of my 1968 inaugural lecture, read and printed in Dutch, also
republished in Dutch in 1969 (see below). 
             
     For those interested in the subject, I want to mention the quite informative book by Otto Mayr
(1971),   
Feedback mechanisms in the
historical collections of the Smithsonian Museum of History and
Technology, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 
             
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            Verveen, A.A., 2003. Pump or
drown; the water-logged history of Holland. 
            IMCoS Journal
(92): 5-23 
     Journal of the International Map
Collectors' Society, Spring 2003, issue nr. 92. 
     A
short history of the swampy coastal area of the Netherlands called
Holland (together with Zeeland, Friesland and Groningen):  
          how
a large part of its surface came to drop below sea-level  
          and how this influenced the
history of the region.  
             
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            Verveen, A.A., 1969. Op speurtocht naar
processen. De vroege geschiedenis van de cybernetica. 
Natuurkundige Voordrachten 47:
119-144. 
      Herdruk, in een tijdschrift,
van mijn oratie uit 1968. 
      Original Dutch version of: "In search of
processes" (see above). 
             
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            Verveen,
A.A., 1997. Geschiedenis van het meten van de tijd. 
     A
history of the measurement of time, in Dutch. 
             
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