 | Paul Carus - 1913 - 684 pagina’s
...quieted: it gallops through the veins with an audible murmur. Such are the two opposite causes of insomnia "The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement. Nourishment keeps up the movements which fever excites. Without food, the soul pines away,... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 pagina’s
...impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand, and hence impossible to define it. Yet we can say that the human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual motion. Let us now go into some detail concerning these springs of the human machine. All the vital,... | |
 | Langdon Winner - 1978 - 400 pagina’s
...I'homme machine of the sort described by the eighteenthcentury philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie: "The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement."* 0 In a totally mechanical universe, a mechanical man is an appropriate microcosm. To this... | |
 | Marx W. Wartofsky - 1979 - 428 pagina’s
...machine that all human activities and qualities can be accounted for mechanistically. The human being is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual motion. Nourishment keeps up the movements which fever excites. . . . Everything depends on how the... | |
 | John Bryan Davis - 1997 - 346 pagina’s
...of economics must await a separate venue. 2. From Clockwork to Dissipation, from Demons to Patrons The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual motion. — La Mettrie In Gibbs' universe order is least probable, chaos most probable. But while the... | |
 | Gill Kirkup - 2000 - 354 pagina’s
...mechanization. French philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his essay "L'Homme Machine" (1748) wrote "The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement."5 The beating hearts of many Europeans at this time no doubt sounded an apprehensive ticking.... | |
 | Gill Kirkup - 2000 - 352 pagina’s
...philosopher Julien Offray de La Mertrie, in his essay "L'Homme Machine" (1748) wrote "The human hodv is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement."5 The heating hearts of manv Europeans at this time no douht sounded an apprehensive ticking.... | |
 | D. Draaisma - 2000 - 268 pagina’s
...And for Lamettrie 'mechanism' meant, as it had done a century earlier for Descartes, clockwork. Man is a 'machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement.'11 This automaton differs only in complexity from the mechanical animals of Descartes: 'He... | |
 | Julie Wosk - 2001 - 360 pagina’s
...extended the metaphor of humanity as a welltuned mechanism akin to a self-functioning timepiece, writing, "The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement" (Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, trans. FE Sutcliffe [Baltimore: Penguin, 1968], 73-74;... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - 2002 - 674 pagina’s
...Graum 's revival stage-managed at their behest. Some Cyborg GeneaIogies: or, How the Demon Got Its Bots The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual motion. Joseph la Mettrie In Gibbs' universe order is least probable, chaos most probable. But while... | |
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The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. It is the living image of perpetual movement. Nourishment keeps up the movements which fever excites. Without food, the soul pines away, goes mad, and dies exhausted... 
