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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Restorer of the Mechanical Philosophy: Robert Boyle (1627-1691) • Introduced the name “mechanical philosophy” • Boyle’s law: “the hypothesis, that supposes the pressures <strong>and</strong> expansions to be in reciprocal proportion” - Air molecules as springs
• • • Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - Animal bodies are purely Descartes: Animals as machines Impressed by the statuary in the Royal Gardens that moved by hydraulic principles mechanical devices Circulation of blood due to heating in the heart, causing the expansion of droplets of blood, which then forced their way through the arteries Nerve transmission <strong>and</strong> brain activity purely mechanical (albeit influenced by the mind in humans)
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