caus.

abbreviation

1. causative.

Example Sentences

Descartes does not think of the universe as being like a clock because in his view outer space is filled not with the crystal spheres of Ptolemaic astronomy, nor with the gears and levers of de Caus’s machines, but with liquid vortices which carry the planets in their orbits around the stars.

From Literature

This principle was employed by della Porta in 1606, and in 1625 Salomon de Caus devised a steam fountain.

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De Caus is important because when Descartes wrote about machines it is particularly his machines that he had in mind, and it is de Caus who transmits the new terminology from Latin into French, and through Descartes into English.

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De Caus in 1615 played with a very simple steam engine, and working steam engines require simple feedback mechanisms.

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It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible.

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