The restless clock [electronic resource] : a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick / Jessica Riskin.
Riskin, Jessica, author.
2016
Q175.32.V65 R57 2016eb
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Title The restless clock [electronic resource] : a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick / Jessica Riskin.
Author Riskin, Jessica, author.
ISBN 9780226303086 (electronic book)
9780226302928
Published Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 548 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Call Number Q175.32.V65 R57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 147
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science
1. Machines in the garden
2. Descartes among the machines
3. The passive telescope or the restless clock
4. The first androids
5. The adventures of Mr. Machine
6. Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine
7. Darwin between the machines
8. The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg
9. Outside in
10. History matters.

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