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  2. Clockwork universe - Wikipedia

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    Tim Wetherell's Clockwork Universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (2009). The clockwork universe is a concept which compares the universe to a mechanical clock.It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every aspect of the machine predictable.

  3. Cherie Priest - Wikipedia

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    First release of the Clockwork Century universe. [20] [21] 'Hell's Bells,' Grant’s Pass, Morrigan Books 2009 'The Catastrophe Box', a short story Son of Retro Pulp Tales, Subterranean Press 2010 'Reluctance', a short story, part of "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk", first published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012

  4. De sphaera mundi - Wikipedia

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    A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) c ...

  5. Mechanical universe - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical universe can refer to: Mechanism (philosophy), theory that the universe is best understood as a system composed entirely of matter in motion under a complete and regular system of laws; Clockwork universe theory, compares the operation of the physical universe to the workings of a mechanical clock

  6. Steampunk - Wikipedia

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    Tim Wetherell's clockwork universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (September 24, 2009) In 2009, for Questacon, artist Tim Wetherell created a large wall piece that represented the concept of the clockwork universe. This steel artwork contains moving gears, a working clock, and a movie of the moon's terminator in action.

  7. Laplace's demon - Wikipedia

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    We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest ...

  8. The Mortal Instruments - Wikipedia

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    Cassandra Clare has written a series of prequels called The Infernal Devices set in the same universe as The Mortal Instruments, but in Victorian London. This series consists of three books: Clockwork Angel , published on August 31, 2010, Clockwork Prince , published December 6, 2011, and Clockwork Princess , published March 19, 2013. [ 11 ]

  9. Singleton (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Karen Burnham, writing in The New York Review of Science Fiction, concludes after a discussion of the short stories "Axiomatic", "Mister Volition" and "Singleton", that "not everyone is as sanguine about the continuity of consciousness when making the transition to substances other than our organic brains nor so worried about the moral implications of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum ...