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Mechanism and agency in science from premodern automata to cybernetics

Jessica Riskin: The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, 544pp, $30.00 PB

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Boantza, V.D. Mechanism and agency in science from premodern automata to cybernetics. Metascience 27, 59–62 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0247-1

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