"The sun, the air, the water, the organization and form of bodies, are all rang'd in order in the eye, as in a looking-glass, which represents to the imagination the pictures of all the objects painted there, according to the laws of vision, which prevail amongst that numberless variety of particles or corpuscles."
L'Homme machine [Man a Machine]
4 entries in the ESTC. Published anonymously, translated into English in 1749 with printings in 1750 and 1752.<br>
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Text from <u>Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquiss D'Argens.</u> (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1749). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107352679&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Man a Machine and Man a Plant</u>, trans. Richard A. Watson and Maya Rybalka (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Translation based on version from La Mettrie's <u>Oeuvres philosophiques</u> (Berlin: 1751).