On page 91 of his brilliant book, Domenico Bertoloni Meli presents Robert Hooke’s investigation of the striking phenomenon of the beard of wild oats as an example of the latter’s attempt to tie together natural and artificial devices: not only could plants be mechanized and explained through mechanical instruments, but “Hooke was [also] inspired by this mechanism occurring in nature to construct a hybrid device to measure humidity” (pp. 91-92).
Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History, written by Domenico Bertoloni Meli, 2019 [Recensione] / F. Baldassarri. - In: EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE. - ISSN 1383-7427. - 25:1(2020), pp. 91-93. [10.1163/15733823-00251P10]
Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History, written by Domenico Bertoloni Meli, 2019
F. Baldassarri
2020
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On page 91 of his brilliant book, Domenico Bertoloni Meli presents Robert Hooke’s investigation of the striking phenomenon of the beard of wild oats as an example of the latter’s attempt to tie together natural and artificial devices: not only could plants be mechanized and explained through mechanical instruments, but “Hooke was [also] inspired by this mechanism occurring in nature to construct a hybrid device to measure humidity” (pp. 91-92).
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