The mechanical philosophy is a form of natural philosophy which compares the universe to a large-scale mechanism (i.e. a machine). The mechanical philosophy...

Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton. Unlike the mechanical philosophy, the chemical philosophy stressed the active powers of matter, which alchemists...

thought known as mechanical philosophy. With this foundation of reasoning, Descartes formulated many of his theories on mechanical and geometric physics...

espousing a more mechanical philosophy of the world, regarding it as being like a machine.[citation needed] The term natural philosophy preceded current...

Various European philosophers adopted what came to be known as mechanical philosophy sometime between around 1610 to 1650, which described the universe...

Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics...

features a Mechanical Turk as a school project. Walter Benjamin alludes to the Mechanical Turk in the first thesis of his Theses on the Philosophy of History...

Street. He set down in his notebook a series of "Quaestiones" about mechanical philosophy as he found it. In 1665, he discovered the generalised binomial...

Monadologie. They can also be compared to the corpuscles of the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and others. Monads are the ultimate elements of...

neither. Although often associated with the emergence of early modern mechanical philosophy, and especially with the names of Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes...

Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Mechanical Philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Brown, 1803. Elements of Mechanical Philosophy: Being the Substance of a Course...

conception of mechanical philosophy partly in response to Descartes; he particularly opposed Descartes' reductionist view that only purely mechanical explanations...

Gualtiero Piccinini proposes an account of computation based on mechanical philosophy. It states that physical computing systems are types of mechanisms...

natural philosophy (3rd edition), New York: Daniel Adee, p. 73 "No. 2080 The Survival of Invention". www.uh.edu. Aristotle: Minor works (1936), Mechanical Problems...

Christian materialism is a widely discussed position in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, defended by figures such as Peter van Inwagen and Trenton...

history, and mechanical philosophy.[3] Girls were taught the same subjects, with the exception of mathematics and mechanical philosophy, and also learned...

physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy. The principle of conservation of mechanical energy states that...

importance of natural theology, partly a response to the rise of mechanical philosophy, encouraged the growth of natural history (although it entrenched...

Mechanical universe can refer to: Mechanism (philosophy), theory that the universe is best understood as a system composed entirely of matter in motion...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 ed.). Descartes, it can be justly said, is the founder of the other main school of the "mechanical philosophy" of the 17th...

a movie of the lunar terminator. Mechanical philosophy Determinism Eternalism (philosophy of time) Orrery Philosophy of space and time Superdeterminism...

mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum mechanics, the state of a quantum mechanical system is a vector ψ {\displaystyle \psi } belonging to a (separable)...

2009-10-17. Robison, John (1822). Murray, John (ed.). A System of Mechanical Philosophy. Vol. 4. London, England: Printed for J. Murray. Maxwell, James...

activity aside from locomotion is to exclude other bodies: this is the mechanical philosophy. Descartes makes an absolute distinction between mind, which he...

Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) The early modern era of philosophy was a progressive movement of Western thought, exploring...

phenomena from them.: 340  Following earlier atomistic thought, the mechanical philosophy of the 17th century posited that all forces could be ultimately...

importance of natural theology, partly a response to the rise of mechanical philosophy, encouraged the growth of natural history (although it entrenched...

Robison, John; Watt, James; Brewster, David (1822). System of Mechanical Philosophy. Vol. 2. Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Murray. p. 14, footnote. For videos...

of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology. Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular...

Western philosophy refers to the philosophical thought and work of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western...