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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
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Chapter One “Que les philosophes medicinassent” -
Chapter Two The “Hydraulico-Pneumatico-Pyrotechnical Machine of Quasi-Perpetual Motion” -
Chapter Three Organic Bodies, Part I -
Chapter Four Organic Bodies, Part II: Context and Legacy -
Chapter Five The Divine Preformation of Organic Bodies -
Chapter Six Games of Nature, the Emergence of Organic Form, and the Problem of Spontaneity -
Chapter Seven The Nature and Boundaries of Biological Species -
Appendix 1 Directions Pertaining to the Institution of Medicine (1671) -
Appendix 2 The Animal Machine -
Appendix 3 The Human Body, Like That of Any Animal, Is a Sort of Machine (1680–86) -
Appendix 4 On Writing the New Elements of Medicine (1682–83) -
Appendix 5 On Botanical Method (1701) - Bibliography
- Index
(p.288) Appendix 2 The Animal Machine
(p.288) Appendix 2 The Animal Machine
- Source:
- Divine Machines
- Author(s):
Justin E. H. Smith
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Chapter One “Que les philosophes medicinassent” -
Chapter Two The “Hydraulico-Pneumatico-Pyrotechnical Machine of Quasi-Perpetual Motion” -
Chapter Three Organic Bodies, Part I -
Chapter Four Organic Bodies, Part II: Context and Legacy -
Chapter Five The Divine Preformation of Organic Bodies -
Chapter Six Games of Nature, the Emergence of Organic Form, and the Problem of Spontaneity -
Chapter Seven The Nature and Boundaries of Biological Species -
Appendix 1 Directions Pertaining to the Institution of Medicine (1671) -
Appendix 2 The Animal Machine -
Appendix 3 The Human Body, Like That of Any Animal, Is a Sort of Machine (1680–86) -
Appendix 4 On Writing the New Elements of Medicine (1682–83) -
Appendix 5 On Botanical Method (1701) - Bibliography
- Index
