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Author : Gamaliel Bradford
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Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book The History and Analysis of the Supposed Automaton Chess Player of M. de Kempelen written by Gamaliel Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gamaliel Bradford
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Total Pages : 34 pages
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Author : Jessica Riskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652826X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Restless Clock written by Jessica Riskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevitable. Since the seventeenth century, many thinkers have made agency, in various forms, central to science. The Restless Clock examines the history of this principle, banning agency, in the life sciences. It also tells the story of dissenters embracing the opposite idea: that agency is essential to nature. The story begins with the automata of early modern Europe, as models for the new science of living things, and traces questions of science and agency through Descartes, Leibniz, Lamarck, and Darwin, among many others. Mechanist science, Jessica Riskin shows, had an associated theology: the argument from design, which found evidence for a designer in the mechanisms of nature. Rejecting such appeals to a supernatural God, the dissenters sought to naturalize agency rather than outsourcing it to a “divine engineer.” Their model cast living things not as passive but as active, self-making machines. The conflict between passive- and active-mechanist approaches maintains a subterranean life in current science, shaping debates in fields such as evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. This history promises not only to inform such debates, but also our sense of the possibilities for what it means to engage in science—and even what it means to be alive.
Author : William Cullen Bryant
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The United States Review and Literary Gazette written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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Author : Jared Sparks
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book The North American Review written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Author : Stephen P. Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926579
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Minding the Machine written by Stephen P. Rice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
Author : Lawrence T. McDonnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131688497X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Performing Disunion written by Lawrence T. McDonnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil War was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary men. Adopting a micro-historical approach, Lawrence T. McDonnell works to connect small events in new ways - he places one company of the secessionist Minutemen in historical context, exploring the political and cultural dynamics of their choices. Every chapter presents little-known characters whose lives and decisions were crucial to the history of Southern disunion. McDonnell asks readers to consider the past with fresh eyes, analyzing the structure and dynamics of social networks and social movements. He presents the dissolution of the Union through new events, actors, issues, and ideas, illuminating the social contradictions that cast the South's most conservative city as the radical heart of Dixie.
Author : Gerald M. Levitt
Publisher : McFarland
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Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book The Turk, Chess Automaton written by Gerald M. Levitt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work contains a detailed discussion of the sizeable body of literature surrounding the Turk along with an extensive analysis of its hidden operation. A collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included, along with numerous other games known to have been played elsewhere by the Turk's hidden directors."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel G. Drake
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Review of Winthrop's Journal written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel G. Drake
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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book A Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D. written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel G. Drake
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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Rare, Useful and Curious Books, Tracts, &c. , in American Literature written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Alexander Peddie
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Total Pages : 884 pages
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Download or read book Subject Index of Books Published Up to and Including 1880 written by Robert Alexander Peddie and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book The Saturday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Standage
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Turk written by Tom Standage and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part historical detective story, part biography, "The Turk" relates the saga of an unusual 18th-century robot--fashioned from wood to look like a man who was dressed like a Turk and played chess. 25 illustrations.
