Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 /

Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800 / edited by Tobias Cheung. - 1st ed. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - 199 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"Originally published as volume XV, nos. 1-2 (2010) of Brill`s journal, Early science and medicine"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transitions and borders between animals, humans and machines, 1600-1800 : introduction / Tobias Cheung -- Animals, humans, machines and thinking matter, 1690-1707 / Ann Thomson -- Endowed molecules and emergent organization : the Maupertuis-Diderot debate / Charles T. Wolfe -- Omnis fibra ex fibra : fibre economies in Bonnet`s and Diderot`s models of organic order / Tobias Cheung -- Transhumane physiologie. Bilder und praktiken des reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall) / Yvonne Wübben -- Machina Machinarum. Die uhr als begriff and metapher zwischen 1450 und 1750 / Hanns-Peter Neumann.


English and German.

9789004191815 (hbk. : alk. paper)


Philosophical anthropology--History.
Mechanism (Philosophy)--History.
Animals (Philosophy)--History.
Philosophy, Modern.

128.09 / CHE
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