Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

By Otto Mayr

Book Overview

Perhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural image, widely used in literature, science, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801828430
• ISBN13: 9780801828430
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.