ACLS Humanities E-Book: Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe

Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe

Mayr, Otto.

Year: 1989, c1986.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Authoritarian Systems

1 The Mechanical Clock, Its Makers and Users

2 The Rise of the Clock Metaphor

3 The Clockwork Universe

4 the Clockwork State

5 The Authoritarian Conception of Order

6 Rejection of the Clock Metaphor in the Name of Liberty

II Liberal Systems

7 Imagery of Balance and Equilibrium

8 Attraction and Repulsion

9 Self-balancing Political Systems

10 Self-regulation in Economic Thought

11 Self-regulation and the Liberal Conception of Order

12 Self-regulating Mechanisms in Practical Technology

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

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Title:

Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe : Otto Mayr.

Author:

Mayr, Otto

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2008
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Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe : Otto Mayr.
Mayr, Otto
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, c1986.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01148

Subject Headings:

• Authority
• Liberty
• Technology and civilization -- History
• Great Britain -- Intellectual life
• Europe -- Intellectual life

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