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Quotation from Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
“Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention”
Discourse on Method, Part V, trans. John Veitch (19th century)
The animal and human body compared to automata, the core of Cartesian mechanistic physiology.
Citation: "Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incomparably better arranged, and adequate to movements more admirable than is any machine of human invention" — Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, Part V, trans. John Veitch (19th century). (id discourse-on-method-q10)
Portrait: Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650), After Frans Hals, Public domain.
