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Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1850 edition. Extrait: ...Anglais, plus heureux que nous, ayant trouve dans Montesquieu leur constitution celebree et preconisee, n'ont pas pu voir la meme ambiguite dans son uvre. Ils etaient bien certainement, au temps de Montesquieu, en avance sur nous d'une revolution; et le simple parallele entre leur constitution et la notre, de la part d'un Francais, (1) Il n'y avait pas, quand j'ecrivais cela, tout-a-fait un siecle; il s'en manquait de six ans. ...
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