# André-Marie Ampère **Domain:** Physics / Philosophy of Science / Cybernetics Prehistory **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Kybernetik]], [[Cybernetic Governance]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition French physicist and classifier of the sciences who used *cybernétique* in 1834 for a proposed science of civil government. ## Kybernetiks Context Ampère is the article’s decisive chronological hinge: modern governmental cybernetics precedes [[Norbert Wiener|Wiener’s]] engineering generalization by more than a century. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]