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mechanist (ˈmɛkənɪst) [f. mechan-ic + -ist.] 1. † a. A mechanic, handicraftsman (obs.). b. One who constructs machinery; a machinist.1606 J. King Serm. Sept. 32 They will turn..Princes into mechanistes and artificers. 1718 J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) I. x. §17. 92 Adapted by Mechanists to ...
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Mechanism (philosophy)
Descartes and the mechanical philosophy
Descartes was also a mechanist. The mechanist thesis
The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications of the mechanist thesis, writing:
Criticism
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Shaper/Mechanist universe
(Note: All years given are taken from "A Shaper/Mechanist Chronology" in the book Schismatrix Plus, which includes all the Shaper/Mechanist material.) The Mechanist philosophy favors individualism more than the collectivist Shapers.
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over-partial
ˈover-ˈpartial, a. [over- 28.] Too partial; unduly partial.a 1586 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 109 Shee would,..clasping with him, come downe together, to be parted by the ouer⁓partiall beholders. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. i. §12 (1713) 23, I cannot but deem you an over-partial Mechanist. a 1720 Sheffield (D...
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William Duke (artist)
Duke worked as a scene-painter and mechanist at Sydney’s Royal Victoria Theatre until 1844, when he spent several months in New Zealand. Commercial work
Duke worked with mechanist Richard Johnson on two moving, circular cityscape dioramas (views of Constantinople, Florence, Jerusalem and
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Schismatrix
The story was Sterling's only novel-length treatment of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. In the beginning of the novel, the rings are under a Mechanist siege.
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Bruce Sterling
stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Alastair Reynolds identified Schismatrix and the other Shaper/Mechanist stories as one of the greatest influences on his own work.
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James Gillingham
Warren wrote the book James Gillingham: Surgical Mechanist & Manufacturer of Artificial Limbs, published by Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society.
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Max Eyth
Although his degree, he had to absolve a training as mechanist before he was allowed to make constructors work.
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Arthur Patschke
A strict mechanist, Patschke proposed the "Universal Law of Force" which stated that "bodies floating in gasses (heavenly bodies, planets, atoms) can only
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Cathy Priestner
She is married to Todd Allinger, a bio-mechanist and sports scientist and residing in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Headscan
Their first album, Shaper and Mechanist, was released in 2001, and was a theme album based on work of novelist Bruce Sterling. Discography
Albums
Shaper and Mechanist (2001)
Uturn 2: An Exploration in Techno (2002, split album with Implant)
Pattern Recognition (2005)
EPs
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Teo
", a song by Thelonious Monk from his 1964 album Monk
Teo McDohl, a character in the video game Suikoden
Teo, the paraplegic Earth Kingdom son of a mechanist
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Crystal Express
appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the first five stories are set in Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist
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Historical determinism
Used as a pejorative, it is normally meant to designate a rigid finalist or mechanist conception of historical unfolding that makes the future appear as
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