Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)
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Perhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural image, widely used in literature, science, and especially Cartesian philosophy. Yet in England, there was greater interest in a different class of technology-the feedback device, such as the safety valve on a steam engine, that could control itself internally;self-regulating systems were hallmarks...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801839394
ISBN13:9780801839399
Release Date:August 1989
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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