Article ID: CBB000953650

Drebbel's Living Instruments, Hartmann's Microcosm, and Libavius's Thelesmos: Epistemic Machines before Descartes (2010)

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Description Focus is on the alchemist Cornelis van Drebbel's natural philosophy, which was machine-based but not mechanistic.


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Authors & Contributors
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Riskin, Jessica
Wilkins, Emma
Wheeler, Michael
Walmsley, Jonathan
Wahrig-Schmidt, Bettina
Concepts
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Vitalism
Cartesianism
Animals
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
18th century
Places
Europe
France
Netherlands
Italy
Great Britain
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