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This new edition has 3 extra chapters:
This new edition has 3 extra chapters:
# The history of automata
# 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.”
## “[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”
# The Geometrical amulets
## “Links science with magical pseudoscience”
# Relating science and technology
# Relating science and technology