The Pentagon of Power, Volume 2In 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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I refer to 'The Great Didactic' of John Amos Comenius, the Moravian teacher and
theologian. As a philosopher Comenius established his general theory of
teaching on the necessity of order, in its most generalized aspects, but he was ...
I refer to 'The Great Didactic' of John Amos Comenius, the Moravian teacher and
theologian. As a philosopher Comenius established his general theory of
teaching on the necessity of order, in its most generalized aspects, but he was ...
Page 103
"As soon as we have succeeded in finding the proper method," Comenius
elsewhere explains, "it will be no harder to teach schoolboys in any number
desired, than with the help of the printing press to cover a thousand sheets daily
with the ...
"As soon as we have succeeded in finding the proper method," Comenius
elsewhere explains, "it will be no harder to teach schoolboys in any number
desired, than with the help of the printing press to cover a thousand sheets daily
with the ...
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... 187 Physical phenomena, 17th-century conception of, 59 Physical world,
abstract conception of, 67 Physicists, contribution of, to mechanical world picture,
51 Physics, Comenius' treatise on, 103 Pioneer, westward march of, 15 Planck,
Max, ...
... 187 Physical phenomena, 17th-century conception of, 59 Physical world,
abstract conception of, 67 Physicists, contribution of, to mechanical world picture,
51 Physics, Comenius' treatise on, 103 Pioneer, westward march of, 15 Planck,
Max, ...
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