The mechanical philosophy is a form of natural philosophy which compares the universe to a large-scale mechanism (i.e. a machine). The mechanical philosophy...

Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton. Unlike the mechanical philosophy, the chemical philosophy stressed the active powers of matter, which alchemists...

thought known as mechanical philosophy. With this foundation of reasoning, Descartes formulated many of his theories on mechanical and geometric physics...

espousing a more mechanical philosophy of the world, regarding it as being like a machine.[citation needed] The term natural philosophy preceded current...

Various European philosophers adopted what came to be known as mechanical philosophy sometime between around 1610 to 1650, which described the universe...

Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics...

Street. He set down in his notebook a series of "Quaestiones" about mechanical philosophy as he found it. In 1665, he discovered the generalised binomial...

Monadologie. They can also be compared to the corpuscles of the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and others. Monads are the ultimate elements of...

neither. Although often associated with the emergence of early modern mechanical philosophy, and especially with the names of Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes...

Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Mechanical Philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Brown, 1803. Elements of Mechanical Philosophy: Being the Substance of a Course...