The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... Bacon had no practice as an experimental scientist , unlike Galileo or Gilbert , this criticism is well founded : but to deny him credit because he did not give sufficient weight to the mathematical innova- tions is less than fair ; for ...
... Bacon had no practice as an experimental scientist , unlike Galileo or Gilbert , this criticism is well founded : but to deny him credit because he did not give sufficient weight to the mathematical innova- tions is less than fair ; for ...
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... Bacon's world was not merely that of the mechanical arts , but one embracing a larger technology , a true polytechnics , that of agriculture , medicine , cookery , brewing , chemistry . His very incapacity for abstract mathematical ...
... Bacon's world was not merely that of the mechanical arts , but one embracing a larger technology , a true polytechnics , that of agriculture , medicine , cookery , brewing , chemistry . His very incapacity for abstract mathematical ...
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... Bacon , even more than Galileo or Descartes , was still living bodily and mentally in an earlier world , not yet stripped of its historic achievements or its human traits . Bacon's references to theology , philosophy , and human- istic ...
... Bacon , even more than Galileo or Descartes , was still living bodily and mentally in an earlier world , not yet stripped of its historic achievements or its human traits . Bacon's references to theology , philosophy , and human- istic ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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