The legacy of the industrial revolution... natural science taught with machines.
This is a beautiful book. If you can get your hands on it it is well worth a look.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Human Machine
I've always been enthralled by odd little ideas and quaint notions of nature and technology. These pictures come from a 1935 textbook called The Miracle of Life edited by Harold Wheeler. It's just such a Romantic notion that even something as incredibly complex and intricate as the human brain can be simplified and expressed as a tangible mechanical process.
The legacy of the industrial revolution... natural science taught with machines.
This is a beautiful book. If you can get your hands on it it is well worth a look.
The legacy of the industrial revolution... natural science taught with machines.
This is a beautiful book. If you can get your hands on it it is well worth a look.
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Looks interesting. It's cool to discover a completely different way of looking at things because we are so entrenched in the present day mindset of understanding things only through empirical means - which can really stifle creativity..
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