The Mechanical Universe

The Mechanical Universe: Nature as a Clockwork Machine

This volume documents the 17th- and 18th-century mechanical worldview in plain view: motion, gravity, light, the body, matter, clocks, and the mathematics used to describe them. From Descartes and Huygens to the collision between mechanism and religion, it lays out how nature came to be pictured as a machine — and what remained after that picture began to break.

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