The Vital Machine: Study of Technology and Organic Life by David F. Channell
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The Vital Machine
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This historical survey of Western ideas about science and technology examines the origins and evolution of mechanical and organic world views. The author describes how the theories of cell development and quantum mechanics led to a biomechanical model of the world as a vital machine.
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Table of Contents
The mechanical and the organic; The mechanical world view: The clockwork universe; Mechanical organisms: From automata to clockwork humans; The organic world view: from magic to vitalism; Organic machines: technology as plant; The emergence of the bionic world view; The vital machine; Ethics in the age of the vital machine.
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CIN0195060407VG
9780195060409
0195060407
The Vital Machine: Study of Technology and Organic Life by David F. Channell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
19910711
203
N/A
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