to mechanisms, for mechanics.

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Science - Physics / leibniz

English term or phrase: to mechanisms, for mechanics.

That was how Gottfried Leibniz, mathematician and philosopher, expressed his frustrations at the beginning of the eighteenth century. You might think he was complaining about people rejecting the rational lines of enquiry that were born in the Enlightenment – people persisting with astrology, perhaps, in an age when astronomy was in the ascendant. In fact, the jibe aimed squarely at Isaac
Newton and his weird and occult idea of “forces”. The complaint comes in a treatise Leibniz called “Against Barbaric Physics” directed at those who “speak of attracting and repelling, adjusting, expanding and contracting forces”. Leibniz admits that the idea of the planets “gravitating and striving toward each other” has been confirmed as correct. But he rejects the new idea that “matter is supposedly able to perceive and covet even things which are remote.” Physics stripped of all mysticism, is “too clear and simple for these people,” Leibniz complained. “Instead they revert to fanciful ideas.”
Leibniz compares Newton to those who suggest a foetus is formed by intelligent spirits that attend to it in the womb. “How can any reasonable person today subscribe to a belief in fantastic qualities that is tantamount to a betrayal of all natural principles?…all this is bound to lead us completely into the realm of the obscure…” Everything, Leibniz says, should ultimately be reduced TO MECHANISMS, FOR MECHANICS.

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a macchine con i rispettivi meccanismi

valentina riccarelli

a meccanismi, per la meccanica

Silvia Nigretto

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a macchine con i rispettivi meccanismi

Explanation:
Oppure "macchine con la rispettiva funzione/con meccanismi propri" nel senso di "automi" o "congegni" inanimati, ognuno dei quali adempie a una determinata funzione nel mondo naturale in base ai meccanismi di cui è dotato.

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valentina riccarelli
Italy
Native speaker of: Italian

20 mins confidence:

a meccanismi, per la meccanica

Explanation:
Perché no?

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Note added at 22 min (2017-06-08 14:41:06 GMT)
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ridotto, ricondotto a meccanismi, per la meccanica...

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Note added at 2 ore (2017-06-08 17:05:43 GMT)
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Hai ragione! Dopo aver visto il link di Valentina, preferisco la sua versione!

Silvia Nigretto
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Asker: Diciamo che no sono queste le parole che userebbe Leibniz....

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