Resumen de Legitimating the machine: the epistemological foundation of technological metaphor in the natural philosophy of René Descartes
Introduction -- 1. Figures and clocks: artefact and cartesian theory of metaphor -- 2. Knowing as making: the limits and nature of scientific knowledge -- 3. Illusion, appearance, the automaton -- 4. Machine semiosis or proportionality at work -- 5. Making a world -- 6. Making pictures: setting the imagination into action -- 7. Conclusion -- Selective bibliography
