Del 8 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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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 not only of practical technology but also of the abstract theories of Newton and Adam Smith.Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

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Utgivningsdatum1989-09-26
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt425 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Antal sidor288
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801839399

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List of IllustrationsAckowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Authoritarian Systems1. The Mechanical Clock, Its Makers and Users2. The Rise of the Clock Metaphor3. The Clockwork Universe4. The Clockwork State5. The Authoritarian Conception of Order6. Rejection of the Clock Metaphor in the Name of LibertyPart II. Liberal Systems7. Imagery of Balance and Equilibrium8. Attraction and Repulsion9. Self-balancing Political Systems10. Self-regulation in Economic Thought11. Self-regulation and the Liberal Conception of Order12. Self-regulating Mechanisms in Practical TechnologyNotesIllustration CreditsIndex