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Hardcover The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge Around 1800 Book

ISBN: 1501346059

ISBN13: 9781501346057

The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge Around 1800

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The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers?

In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge...

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