Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Sehr guter Zustand, fast neuwertig / Very good condition, almost as new. - FIGURES i. Cardiac Circulation 2. Antagonistic Muscles 3. The First Paths in Generation: The (Jr-Animal 4. Formation of Sensory Nerves 5. Sexual Differentiation 6. Recreational Mechanics (Caus Forces mouvantes, Thm. 16). . 7. How One Object Distracts Us from Another (L�Homme AT 11, Fig. 35; Alq. 1:462) 8. Machine for Making Jets of Water (Caus Forces mouvantes Liv. 1, Prob. 9) 9. (i) Winch with Endless Screw (Zonca). (ii) Two-Cylinder Pump (Caus). (iii) Details from (ii) 10. Device for Lifting Water (adapted from Caus Forces mouvantes, Thm. 6) 11. (i) Circulatory System, (ii) The Brain (side view). (iii) The Pineal Gland and the Base of the Brain. (iv) The Pineal Gland (close up) (L�Homme AT 11, Figs. 1, 24, 27, 32) 12. The Pineal Gland and Environs (Bauhin Theat. anat.) 13. Inclined Plane (AT 1:439) 14. Kinematic Chain (adapted from Reuleaux 1874-5/1876, Fig. 10, p47) 15. A Ball Dancing on a Spout of Water (Caus Forces mouvantes Liv. 2, Prob. 2). ISBN 9780801437649