"The body may be consider'd as a clock, and the fresh chyle we may look upon as the former of that clock."
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
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Date
1748, 1749
Metaphor
"The body may be consider'd as a clock, and the fresh chyle we may look upon as the former of that clock."
Metaphor in Context
The body may be consider'd as a clock, and the fresh chyle we may look upon as the former of that clock. The first business of nature upon the entrance of the chyle into the blood, is to raise a sort of fever, which the chemists (who dream of nothing but furnaces) take to be fermentation. This fever causes a greater filtration of the spirits, which are about to animate the muscles and the heart, as if they had been sent out on purpose by the order of the will.
(pp. 66-7)
(pp. 66-7)
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Citation
4 entries in the ESTC. Published anonymously, translated into English in 1749 with printings in 1750 and 1752.
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Text from Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's Oeuvres philosophiques (Berlin: 1751).
Date of Entry
07/16/2013
