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===to the Enlarged Edition=== Now, more than ever, science if being used as the hammer to solve all of society’s problems. Thus taking it away from it’s true purpose. “Today as never before, our higher educational system and the culture it enfolds teeter critically on a sharp division between education in the ancient sense of the term and a somewhat blatantly utilitarian viewpoint in which science is seen as a begetter of technological fixes for national needs.” “Science is a very exceptional and peculiar activity of all mankind, and one is not at liberty to regard it as that which can be applied to make technology.” This new edition has 3 extra chapters: # The history of automata ## “[it] serves as a link between the development of clockwork and the mechanistic philosophy that has played a central role in the conceptual side of science.” # The Geometrical amulets ## “Links science with magical pseudoscience” # Relating science and technology
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