NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Auguste Comte, Luddite, Collective Behavior
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During the 19th century about what modern science takes shape, who does science etc. People start to be surrounded by machines, as people move to the city, the city it self becomes populated by the machines. These machines are powered by steam and electricity. Like all of the other revolutions this doesn"t happen dramatically, this is a very gradual process. The beginning use of steam and electricity as power is also gradual. Before they had horses, cities of the 1800s are filled with horses, they power the factories, they equipment and mills. Theme: nature-increasingly starts to be seen simply as a raw material for industrial work and in ways that it really hadn"t before, so beginning of the environmental crisis begin. It is also a century of great suspicion, mistrust about machines. The ideas that there is this anxiety that machine are taking over.