{"product_id":"authority-liberty-and-automatic-machinery-otto-mayr-9780801839399","title":"Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural image, widely used in literature, science, and especially Cartesian philosophy. Yet in England, there was greater interest in a different class of technology-the feedback device, such as the safety valve on a steam engine, that could control itself internally;self-regulating systems were hallmarks not only of practical technology but also of the abstract theories of Newton and Adam Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Otto Mayr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801839394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801839399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.04w x 0.66d","brand":"Otto Mayr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082567753983,"sku":"9780801839399","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/authority-liberty-and-automatic-machinery-otto-mayr-9780801839399","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}