The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... method , once it was widely applied , was that it opened an important part of the visible world to systematic public observa- tion , while the method itself , accessible to all who were competent to master it , lifted the results above ...
... method , once it was widely applied , was that it opened an important part of the visible world to systematic public observa- tion , while the method itself , accessible to all who were competent to master it , lifted the results above ...
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... method resulted in a clarification of ' physical events ' which gave the inventor and the engineer confidence in their ability to arrive at predictable . results . As for the ' physical world ' that was described in these simple terms ...
... method resulted in a clarification of ' physical events ' which gave the inventor and the engineer confidence in their ability to arrive at predictable . results . As for the ' physical world ' that was described in these simple terms ...
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Lewis Mumford. scientific method , when it ceases to deal with statistical probabilities must pass from positivism to platonism . What made the new world picture so potent was that its method of deliberately ignoring the complex reality ...
Lewis Mumford. scientific method , when it ceases to deal with statistical probabilities must pass from positivism to platonism . What made the new world picture so potent was that its method of deliberately ignoring the complex reality ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York