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clockwork universe
- An image of the universe as a clock wound up by God and ticking along with its gears governed by the laws of physics . This idea was very important in the Enlightenment , when scientists realized that Newton's laws of motion , including the law of universal gravitation , could explain the behavior of the solar system .
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It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible.
Where some artists use collage to express disruption, Moumin executes formal and often symmetrical designs that denote a clockwork universe.
To the human eye the Moon is a piece of a clockwork universe.
Newton’s mathematical cosmos is a clockwork universe, where each cause has a unique effect and we are governed not by our choices but by the rigid laws of nature.
He aspired to become a colleague of the great Tycho Brahe, who for thirty-five years had devoted himself, before the invention of the telescope, to the measurement of a clockwork universe, ordered and precise.
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