SPRING QUARTER, 2006
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 5.  Mechanism

Supplementary readings for Week 5's lectures include excerpts from:

• An Account of the Origin and Formation of Fossil-Shells.... (1705) attributed to Charles King (fl. 1705)

• "...Some Late Observations upon the Generation, Composition, and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances...." (1748) by John Turbervill Needham (1713-1781)

• Man a Machine (1748) by Julien de la Mettrie (1709-1751)

• An Account of the Mechanism of an Automaton (1738) by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782)

• Conversation between D'Alembert and Diderot.... (1769) by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

• Inanimate Reason.... (1784) Letters of Karl-Gottlieb de Windisch (1722-1793)

• The ... Automaton Chess-Player, Exposed and Detected (1784) by Philipp Thicknesse (1719-1792)

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