The mechanization of the world picture / by E.J. Dijksterhuis. Translated by C. Dikshoorn.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Series: Galaxy book ; GB298.Publisher: London : Oxford University Press, [1969, ©1961]Description: vi, 537 pages : 21 cmContent type: - text
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- Mechanisering van het wereldbeeld. English
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"Translation of the Dutch work De mechanisering van het wereldbeeld, which appeared in Amsterdam in 1950."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-526).
In English, translated from the Dutch.
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A sweeping history of Science (and to some extent technology) tracking the growth of a mechanistic world view, including the growth of the idea of celestial mechanics, from antiquity to the 17th century
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