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Definition of Clockwork universe
1. Noun. The view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics.
Definition of Clockwork universe
1. Noun. a universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clockwork Universe
Literary usage of Clockwork universe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their by D. Graham Burnett (2005)
"1630), see illustration of "Table carriage with Minerva," item 108 in Maurice
and Mayr, clockwork universe, pp. 282-83. '"For the handcraft technique, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... to ask Mr. Hardy why he has given the name of "Will" to that which never .wills,
or where he finds a place for "Chance" in his clockwork universe, ..."
3. The Modern Revolution in Physics by Benjamin Crowell (2003)
"However radical Newton's clockwork universe seemed to his contemporaries, by the
early twentieth century it had become a sort of smugly accepted dogma. ..."
4. The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society by Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke (1997)
"More likely, it is because of our deeply ingrained view of a clockwork universe,
a view which in the West was forcefully stated by the great French ..."
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