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

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Boston: Brill (2010)
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Drawing on natural history, theology and philosophy, this book retraces the shifting foundations of the order of things that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant with respect to three questions: What is an animal?

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BD450.T648 2010

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9789004191815   900419181X

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10.1163/138374210x12589831572983
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Transitions and borders between animals, humans and machines, 1600-1800 : introduction.Tobias Cheung
Transitions and borders between animals, humans, and machines, 1600-1800.Tobias Cheung (ed.)
Animals, humans, machines and thinking matter, 1690-1707.  (pages 3-37)Ann Thomson
Endowed molecules and emergent organization : the Maupertuis-Diderot debate.  (pages 38-65)Charles T. Wolfe
Omnis fibra ex fibra : fibre economies in Bonnet's and Diderot's models of organic order.  (pages 66-104)Tobias Cheung
Transhumane physiologie. Bilder und praktiken des reflexes (Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Marshall Hall).  (pages 105-121)Yvonne Wübben
Machina Machinarum. Die Uhr als Begriff und Metapher zwischen 1450 und 1750.  (pages 122-192)Hanns-Peter Neumann

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