Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

Abstract

List of Illustrations Ackowledgments Introduction Part I. Authoritarian Systems 1. The Mechanical Clock, Its Makers and Users 2. The Rise of the Clock Metaphor 3. The Clockwork Universe 4. The Clockwork State 5. The Authoritarian Conception of Order 6. Rejection of the Clock Metaphor in the Name of Liberty Part II. Liberal Systems 7. Imagery of Balance and Equilibrium 8. Attraction and Repulsion 9. Self-balancing Political Systems 10. Self-regulation in Economic Thought 11. Self-regulation and the Liberal Conception of Order 12. Self-regulating Mechanisms in Practical Technology Notes Illustration Credits Index