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    Man a Machine (French: L'homme machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie...
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    dans les maladies (1881) (Text on line) Études pratiques sur la marche de l'homme. Expériences faites à la station physiologique du Parc des Princes., La...
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  • a fundamental difference between animals and humans, but Man a Machine (L'homme Machine) by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1747, extended...
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    materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine (Man a Machine). La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that...
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    together functioned as a machine. This idea was developed further by Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1750) in his book L'Homme Machine. In the 19th century...
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    "L'homme armé" (from French 'the armed man') is a secular song from the Late Middle Ages, of the Burgundian School. According to Allan W. Atlas, "the...
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  • antecedent circumstances and natural law. (See, for example, La Mettrie's L'Homme machine.) As a consequence, debates about freedom versus "necessity" were a...
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  • base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest...
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  • intelligence. Timeline of machine translation Timeline of machine learning Please see Mechanical calculator#Other calculating machines Please see: Pascal's...
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    In 1747 Julien Offray de La Mettrie anonymously published L'homme machine (Man a Machine), in which he called Vaucanson a "new Prometheus" and mused...
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  • Vol. 52. La Mettrie, La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (1748). L'Homme Machine (Man a Machine) Lange, Friedrich A. (1925) The History of Materialism. New...
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    explicitly was Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his book Man a Machine (L'homme machine). His arguments, however, were very abstract. The most influential...
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  • PMID 25988381. Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor....
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    mechanism of Julien Offray de La Mettrie's (1709–1751) work, Man a Machine (L'homme machine). Coleridge and Shelley saw in Spinoza's philosophy a religion...
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    (1831). Frankenstein (3 ed.). Chapter XXIV. Duperray 1994, p. 33. "L'homme-machine et Emmanuel Kant". jeanpaulcoupal.blogspot.fr. 22 January 2013. Retrieved...
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    early French materialist philosopher. Best known as author of L'homme machine (Man a Machine). John Millar 1735–1801 Scottish Philosopher and historian....
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  • Meridionale, including Ulloa's account of platinum. Publication of Man a Machine (L'homme Machine) by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Copley Medal: James Bradley Eva...
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    PMID 25988381. Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor....
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  • PMID 25988381. Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor....
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  • acts in blind manner". Soon after Julien Offroy de la Mettrie in his L'Homme Machine. (1748, anon.) wrote: "Perhaps, the cause of man's existence is just...
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  • Once Upon a Time... Man (French: Il était une fois... l'homme) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It...
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    Erik L'Homme, (born 22 December 1967 in Grenoble), is a French writer of youth novels. He is known for the fantasy trilogy Book of the Stars, the space...
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  • l'Esprit des lois (The Spirit of the Laws) Julien Offray de La Mettrie – L'Homme Machine Laetitia Pilkington – Memoirs Samuel Richardson (anonymously) – Clarissa...
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  • French materialism. La Mettrie is chiefly famous for his work L'homme machine (Man a Machine, 1747) in which he espoused a thoroughgoing materialist account...
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    The Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul...
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  • publications, Zürich, 2006. (fr) Cf. the preface to this treatise on L'Homme-machine. Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique, Seuil...
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    PMID 25988381. Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor....
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    PMID 25988381. Letelier, J C; Cárdenas, M L; Cornish-Bowden, A (2011). "From L'Homme Machine to metabolic closure: steps towards understanding life". J. Theor....
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  • The Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, CNCDH) is a French governmental organization...
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  • Man, the Unknown (L'Homme, cet inconnu) is a best-selling 1935 book by Alexis Carrel in which he endeavours to outline a comprehensive account what is...
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