PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Law Of Three Stages, Psychological Nativism, Auguste Comte
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The defecating duck and the glory of france. Mechanical duck that is a machine that is full of levers and cogs and springs that cause it to move and imitate a duck"s behaviour. Defecating duck drew large crowds from many european countries and was a world wonder. This is considered a wonder because today, we can see far more complicated and realistic figures at any theme park. Machines became familiar to people at all levels of society, from peasant to artistrocrat, and soon they were accepted as a natural part of everyday life. Mechanical devices were being built to provide whimsical forms of amusement. The mechanical clock had the greatest impact on scientific thought. Mechanism the image of the universe as a great machine. Everything that existed in the universe was assumed to be composed of particles of matter in motion. Galileo said that matter was made up of discrete corpuscles or atoms that affected one another by direct contact.
