PersonRobert Boyle
Boyle
A seventeenth-century Irish natural philosopher and a founder of the Royal Society, known for Boyle's law. He used the mechanical metaphor of the clock to discuss cosmic order.
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Mechanical metaphor was extremely prevalent from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, with representative figures including Boyle, who compared the universe to a "clock of God", and Descartes, who viewed the human body as an "automaton".
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